3. tonsis...villis: of
shorn nap, smooth and soft. 64. onerant: B. 254, 4, a; A. & G. 317, d.
65. Panchaeis ignibus: incense-burning flames. Panchaea was a fabulous
island, east of Arabia, rich in incense. 66. et mater: sc. dixit.
Maeonii: Lydian. Bacchi: the wine, as Vestam (1. 70) is the fire, the
deities being named for that over which they preside. 69. centum: simply
expressing a large number. 71. subiecta: shooting up. 73 ff. This part
of the story has its original in _Odyssey_ 4. The Carpathian Sea is
between Crete and Rhodes. 74. caeruleus: an epithet applied to Proteus
as a god of the azure sea. 75. The yoked chariot of two-footed steeds
equals the chariot yoked to two-footed steeds. 77. Pallenen: a peninsula
of Emathia, or Macedonia. 79. quae...trahantur: what in the near future
is drawn on in the chain of events. 83. eventusque secundet: and may
make the issue favorable. 94. fulva cervice: ablative of description.
101. ambrosiae: used as an ointment, as _Iliad_, 14. 170, Aeneid,
12.419. 102. perduxit: anointed; _Lex_. perduco, I. C. 1. 105, 106.
quo...reductos: whither many a billow marches before the wind and
divides into files that fall back, cogo and reductos may be used in a
military sense. The wind is the rear-guard of the marching files of
billows formed as the main wave enters an indentation in the shore. As
the wave divides, all the secondary waves pursue the original direction,
but the outer ones are retarded, as compared with the middle ones, and
seem to fall back. Statio, just below, is familiar as a military term.
Or reductos sinus can mean the depths of the bay. 107. deprensis:
weather-bound. 108. vasti...obiice saxi: by the barrier of a vast rock,
i.e. behind a rock. 109. averaum a lumine: in the darkness. 114.
faucibus: i.e. the deep-cut channels. Perhaps the author intends with a
bold personification to speak of the almost dried-up rivers as
dry-throated, siccis faucibus would then be well taken as ablative of
description. 115. antra: plural in view of the many chambers. 117. rorem
amarum: the bitter dew, beautifully used of the salt spray. 121. acuunt:
whet the wolves, i. e. their hunger. 131. Nam quis equals quisnam, Who
pray? Surprise is expressed. 133. neque est: nor is it possible, used
with infinitive in Greek construction, _Lex_. 1 sum, I, B, 5, 6, e. 135.
lassis rebus: shattered fortunes. 137. glauco: azure. 139.
Non...nullius: double negative for greater emphasis. It is in very truth
t