32, 22. Virgil
and others, however, make them share immortality by turns.

119 Idreus was the arm-bearer and charioteer of king Priam, slain during
this war. Cf. AEn, vi. 487.

120 --_Scaea's gates,_ rather _Scaean gates,_ _i.e._ the left-hand gates.

121 This was customary in all sacrifices. Hence we find Iras descending
to cut off the hair of Dido, before which she could not expire.

122 --_Nor pierced._

"This said, his feeble hand a jav'lin threw,
Which, flutt'ring, seemed to loiter as it flew,
Just, and but barely, to the mark it held,
And faintly tinkled on the brazen shield."

Dryden's Virgil, ii. 742.

_ 123 Reveal'd the queen._

"Thus having said, she turn'd and made appear
Her neck refulgent and dishevell'd hair,
Which, flowing from her shoulders, reach'd the ground,
And widely spread ambrosial scents around.
In length of train descends her sweeping gown;
And, by her graceful walk, the queen of love is known."

Dryden's Virgil, i. 556.

124 --_Cranae's isle, i.e._ Athens. See the "Schol." and Alberti's
"Hesychius," vol. ii. p. 338. This name was derived from one of its
early kings, Cranaus.

125 --_The martial maid._ In the original, "Minerva Alalcomeneis," _i.e.
the defender,_ so called from her temple at Alalcomene in Boeotia.

126 "Anything for a quiet life!"

127 --_Argos._ The worship of Juno at Argos was very celebrated in
ancient times, and she was regarded as the patron deity of that
city. Apul. Met., vi. p. 453; Servius on Virg. AEn., i. 28.

128 --_A wife and sister._

"But I, who walk in awful state above
The majesty of heav'n, the sister-wife of Jove."

Dryden's "Virgil," i. 70.

So Apuleius, _l. c._ speaks of her as "Jovis germana et conjux, and
so Horace, Od. iii. 3, 64, "conjuge me Jovis et sorore."

129 "Thither came Uriel, gleaming through the even
On a sunbeam, swift as a shooting star
In autumn thwarts the night, when vapours fired
Impress the air, and shows the mariner
From what point of his compass to beware
Impetuous winds."

--"Paradise Lost," iv. 555