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78. lustris as the lustrum is generally reckoned at five years, this would make his father ninety at the time of his death (but see below, note to v. 95).

80. justa, due (funeral) rites.

85. aliquid nisi, something besides.

88. in Stygio foro, in the court of Pluto.

95. ortus, birth. - Pisæa oliva: the reward to the victor in the Olympic games (held in the territory of Pisa) was a crown of wild olive. As these games came once in four years, decies victor would naturally mean forty years; he was, however, fifty at the time of his banishment, and we can account for the discrepancy only by supposing that he reckoned the Olympiad at five years, an almost inconceivable blunder. Mommsen explains it, however (Röm. Chron. p. 170), by calling attention to the confusion of the ancients themselves in regard to the expression quinto quoque anno, for the period in the Julian calendar: "the poet," he says, "rightly supposed that the Olympiad and the Julian lustra [decem lustris peractis, Ibis. 1], were of equal length, and very wrongly supposed the latter to be five years."

97. ad læva, i. e. as one sails out from the Propontis (Marmora).

106. temporis arma; i. e. of the exigency, or the new life into which he was thrown.

110. Sarmatis (patrial adj. fem.) agrees with ora.

114. sic, even thus.

122. ab exsequiis, after the funeral.

126. maligna, grudging.

129. veri limits quid.

130. protinus ut moriar, although I should die at once. 132. jure, deservedly, qualifies carmine tuli.

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INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

ACHELOUS, a river of Epirus (ix. 63), one of whose horns, being wrested away, became the Horn of Plenty.

ACHERON (joyless), a river of Hades (named from a river of Epirus, which disappears in the earth).

ACHILLES, Son of Peleus and Thetis, champion of the Greeks at Troy; slain by Paris (xii. 580-628).

Acıs, son of Faunus, loved by Galatea, slain in jealousy by Polyphemus (xiii. 884).

ACTEON, son of Cadmus, changed to a stag by Diana, and torn by his own hounds (iii. 138-252).

ADONIS, Son of Myrrha, dear to Venus; killed in the chase by a wild boar (x. 708-739).

Œacus, son of Jupiter and Ægina, prince of the island of Ægina; father of Peleus and Telamon (viii. 425-660); judge in the infernal regions (xiii. 25).

ÆETES, Son of the Sun and Persa, king of Colchis, father of Medea, who killed the ram of the golden fleece.

ÆGEON (or Briareus), a hundred-handed giant, son of Uranos and Gaia.

ÆGEUS, a king of Athens, son of Pandion, and father of Theseus : who cast himself into the sea in grief at the supposed death of his son.

ENEAS, son of Anchises and Venus, a prince of Troy; he settled Italy and became one of the gods Indigetes (xiv. 608).

ÆOLUS, god of the Winds, having his dwelling in the Æolian Isles. ESCULAPIUS, son of Apollo and Coronis, god of Healing (xv. 622744).

ÆSON, king of Iolchos, father of Jason, miraculously restored to youth by Medea (vii. 287–293).

AGAMEMNON (Atrides), son of Atreus, chief of the Greeks at Troy, slain at his return by Ægisthus, son of Thyestes.

AGENOR, King of Phoenicia, father of Cadmus and Europa.
AJAX, son of Telamon, a chief at Troy, who slew himself in
jealousy at failing to receive Achilles' armour (xiii. 391).
ALCMENE, wife of Amphitryon and mother of Hercules.
ALPHEUS, a river of Elis (see Arethusa).

ALTHÆA, wife of Eneus, king of Calydon, mother of Meleager

(viii. 446).

AMPHION, Son of Jupiter and Antiope, husband of Niobe, who by the power of music built the walls of Thebes.

AMPHITRITE, daughter of Nereus, wife of Neptune.
AMPHITRYON, prince of Thebes, husband of Alcmene.

ANDROGEOS, son of Minos, slain by the Marathonian bull at
Athens.

ANDROMEDA, daughter of Cepheus, exposed to perish by a sea

monster, and rescued by Perseus (iv. 683-739).

APOLLO, son of Jupiter and Latona, god of music, archery, and prophecy. Under the name Phœbus, god of the sun.

ARACHNE, a maid of Lydia, who challenged Minerva to a trial of skill in embroidery, and was by her changed to a spider (vi. 1-145).

ARETHUSA, a fountain nymph of Elis, pursued by Alpheus, from

whom she took refuge beneath the sea, reappearing in the isle of Ortygia (v. 597-641).

ARGO, the ship which bore the Argonauts, under Jason, to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

ARIADNE, daughter of Minos, who rescued Theseus from the labyrinth, and afterwards, being deserted by him, became the bride of Bacchus (viii. 172-182).

ASCALAPHUS, Son of Acheron, changed by Proserpine into an owl (v. 538-550).

ASTRÆA, goddess of Justice, who forsook the earth in the iron age (i. 150), and became the constellation Virgo.

ATALANTA, daughter of Iasos, beloved by Meleager (viii. 324), and afterwards won by Hippomenes, and changed to a lioness (x. 560-707).

ATHAMAS, son of Eolus, king of Thebes, father of Phrixus and Helle (see Ino).

ATLAS, Son of Iapetos and Clymene, converted by the head of Medusa into a mountain, still bearing the heavens on its summit (iv. 631-662).

ATRIDES (son of Atreus), a name of Agamemnon and Menelaus. AURORA (dawn), daughter of Hyperion and Theia, mother of

Boreas, Zephyrus, and Notus, also (by Tithonus) of Memnon. AVERNUS, a small deep lake in Campania, near Naples, the entrance to the infernal regions.

BACCHUS (Dionysus), son of Jupiter and Semele (daughter of Cadmus, iii. 253-315), god of wine and revelry.

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BAUCIS, wife of Philemon, changed to a linden (viii. 620-721).
BERECYNTUS, a mountain in Phrygia sacred to Cybele.

BOREAS (North wind), son of Astræus and Aurora.

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BUSIRIS, king of Egypt, who sacrificed strangers on the altar of Jupiter, and was slain by Hercules.

CADMUS, son of Agenor, sent in search of Europa; founder of Thebes (iii. 1-137).

CANEUS, one of the Lapitha, originally a maiden (Cænis), crushed in battle with the Centaurs, and changed to an eagle (x. 514-526).

CALAIS, winged son of Boreas and Orithyia.

CALYDON, a district of Ætolia, ravaged by the wild boar slain in the Calydonian Hunt (viii. 260-525).

CASSIOPEIA, queen of Ethiopia, wife of Cepheus, and mother of Andromeda.

CASTALIA, a spring of Mount Parnassus (iii. 14).

CAYSTRUS, a river of Asia Minor, forming the Asian marsh, near Ephesus.

CENTAURI, a fierce race of Thessaly, — horses with human head and breast, offspring of Ixion, routed in battle with the Lapithæ (xii. 210-525).

CEPHALUS, prince of Athens, grandson of Æolus, who killed unwittingly his wife Procris (vii. 661-865).

CEPHEUS, king of Ethiopia, father of Andromeda.

CEPHISUS, a stream of Boeotia (iii. 19).

CERBERUS, the three-headed watch-dog of the infernal regions, offspring of Typhon and Echidna.

CERES (Demeter), goddess of harvests, daughters of Saturn, and mother of Proserpina (v. 341-661).

CHARYBDIS, a whirlpool of the Sicilian strait, opposite Scylla. CIRCE, an enchantress, daughter of the Sun, sister of Eetes, who bewitched the companions of Ulysses.

CLYMENE, mother of Phaëthon (i. 756).

CLYTIE, a nymph who in hopeless love of the sun-god is changed to a sunflower (iv. 232-270).

COLCHIS, a district east of the Black Sea, sought by the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece.

CUPIDO (Eros), god of Love, son of Mars and Venus.

CYANE, a nymph of Sicily, converted by Pluto to a fountain (v. 409-437).

CYBELE, "mother of the gods," daughter of Uranos and Gaia, worshipped in Phrygia with frantic rites.