r. 357. When discharged from
the 'balista,' or 'catapulta,' or other engine of war.]

[Footnote 62: _Eupalamus and Pelagon._--Ver. 360. They are not
previously named in the list of combatants; and nothing further is
known of them.]

[Footnote 63: _Would have perished._--Ver. 365. What is here told
of Nestor, one of the Commentators on Homer attributes to
Thersites, who, according to him, being the son of Agrius, the
uncle of Meleager, was present on this occasion.]

[Footnote 64: _Othriades._--Ver. 371. Nothing further is known of
him.]

[Footnote 65: _Peleus._--Ver. 375. According to Apollodorus,
Peleus accidentally slew Eurytion on this occasion.]

[Footnote 66: _The Arcadian._--Ver. 391. This was Ancaeus, who is
mentioned before, in line 215.]

[Footnote 67: _Warlike._--Ver. 437. 'Mavortius' may possibly mean
'the son of Mars,' as, according to Hyginus, Mars was engaged in
an intrigue with Althaea.]

[Footnote 68: _Sepulchral altars._--Ver. 480. The 'sepulchralis
ara' is the funeral pile, which was built in the form of an altar,
with four equal sides. Ovid also calls it 'funeris ara,' in the
Tristia, book iii. Elegy xiii. line 21.]

[Footnote 69: _Eumenides._--Ver. 482. This name properly signifies
'the well-disposed,' or 'wellwishers,' and was applied to the
Furies by way of euphemism, it being deemed unlucky to mention
their names.]

[Footnote 70: _Funeral offering._--Ver. 490. The 'inferiae' were
sacrifices offered to the shades of the dead. The Romans appear to
have regarded the souls of the departed as Gods; for which reason
they presented them wine, milk, and garlands, and offered them
victims in sacrifice.]

[Footnote 71: _Hopes of his father._--Ver. 498. Oeneus had other
sons besides Meleager, who were slain in the war that arose in
consequence of the death of Plexippus and Toxeus. Nicander says
they were five in number; Apollodorus names but three, Toxeus,
Tyreus, and Clymenus.]

[Footnote 72: _Twice five months._--Ver. 500. That is, lunar
months.]

[Footnote 73: _Of his bed._--Ver. 521. Antoninus Liberalis calls
her Cleopatra, but Hyginus says that her name was Alcyone. Homer,
however, reconciles this discrepancy, by saying that the original
name of the wife of Meleager was Cleopatra, but that she was
called Alcyone, because