of Atreus._--Ver. 805. This was Menelaues, from
whom Paris was saved by Venus. See the Iliad, book III.]

[Footnote 86: _Mutina._--Ver. 823. This was a place in Cisalpine
Gaul, where Augustus defeated Antony, and took his camp.]

[Footnote 87: _Philippi._--Ver. 824. Pharsalia was in Thessaly,
and Philippi was in Thrace. He uses a poet's license, in treating
them as being the same battle-field, as they both formed part of
the former kingdom of Macedonia. Pompey was defeated by Julius
Caesar at Pharsalia, while Brutus and Cassius were defeated by
Augustus and Antony at Philippi. The fleet of the younger Pompey
was totally destroyed off the Sicilian coast.]

[Footnote 88: _The wife._--Ver. 826. Mark Antony was so
infatuated as to divorce his wife, Octavia, that he might be
enabled to marry Cleopatra.]

[Footnote 89: _Canopus._--Ver. 828. This was a city of Egypt,
situate on the Western mouth of the river Nile.]

[Footnote 90: _His hallowed wife._--Ver. 836. Augustus took Livia
Drusilla, while pregnant, from her husband, Tiberius Nero, and
married her. He adopted her son Tiberius, and constituted him his
successor.]

[Footnote 91: _With like years._--Ver. 838. Julius Caesar was
slain when he was fifty-six years old. Augustus died in his
seventy-sixth year.]

[Footnote 92: _Threefold world._--Ver. 859. This is explained as
meaning the realms of the heavens, the aether and the air; but it
is difficult to guess exactly what is the Poet's meaning here.]

[Footnote 93: _Companions of AEneas._--Ver. 861. He probably
refers to the Penates which AEneas brought into Latium. Dionysius
of Halicarnassus says that he had seen them in a temple at Rome,
and that they bore the figures of two youths seated and holding
spears.]

EXPLANATION.

The Poet having fulfilled his promise, and having brought down his
work from the beginning of the world to his own times, concludes it
with the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. He here takes an opportunity of
complimenting Augustus, as being more worthy of divine honours than
even his predecessor, while he promises him a long and glorious
reign. Augustus, however, had not to wait for death to receive
divine honours, as he enjoyed the glory of seeing himself worshipped
as a Deity and adored at altars erected to him, even in his
lifetime. According to Appian