himself from the Latian ship; and he puts an end to the mourning, having resumed his celestial form. And {thus} did he come, the restorer of health, to the City.
[Footnote 61: The tripod.--Ver. 635. The tripod on which the priestess of Apollo or ‘Pythia,’ sat when inspired, was called ‘Cortina,’ from the skin, ‘corium,’ of the serpent Python, which, when it had been killed by Apollo was used to cover it.]
[Footnote 62: Epidaurus.--Ver. 643. There were several towns of this name. The one here mentioned was in the state of Argolis.]
[Footnote 63: Polished steps.--Ver. 685. Clarke translates ‘Gradibus nitidis,’ ‘the neat steps.’]
[Footnote 64: Is conspicuous aloft.--Ver. 697. ‘Deus eminet alte.’ This is rendered by Clarke, ‘The God rears up to a good height.’]
[Footnote 65: Scylacean.--Ver. 702. Scylace was a town on the Calabrian coast; it was said to have been founded by an Athenian colony.]
[Footnote 66: Amphissian.--Ver. 703. Amphissia was the name of a city of Locris; but that cannot be the place here alluded to on the coast of Italy. It is most probably a corrupt reading.]
[Footnote 67: Caulon.--Ver. 705. Caulon was a colony of the Achæa on the coast of Calabria. Narycia, or Naritium, or Naricia, was also a town on the Calabrian coast. The localities of Ceraunia and Romechium are not known.]
[Footnote 68: Leucosia.--Ver. 708. Leucosia was a little island off the town of Pæstum, which was in Lucania; it was famous for its mild climate, and the beauty of its roses, which are celebrated by Virgil.]
[Footnote 69: Capreæ.--Ver. 709. Capreæ was an island near the coast of Naples.]
[Footnote 70: Surrentine.--Ver. 710. Surrentum was a city of Campania, famed for its wines.]
[Footnote 71: City of Hercules.--Ver. 711. This was Herculaneum, at the foot of Vesuvius; the place which shared so disastrous a fate from the eruption of that mountain.]
[Footnote 72: Stabiæ.--Ver. 711. This was a town of Campania, which was destroyed by Sylla in the Social war. It was afterwards rebuilt.]
[Footnote 73: The warm springs.--Ver. 711. He alludes to the city of Baiæ, famed for its warm springs and baths.]
[Footnote 74: Linternum.--Ver. 714. This place was in Campania. It was famous as the place of retirement of the elder Scipio; he was buried there.]
[Footnote 75: Vulturnus.--Ver. 715. This was a river of Campania, which flowed past the city of Capua.]
[Footnote 76: Snow-white snakes.--Ver. 715. Sinuessa was a town of Campania; Heinsius very properly suggests ‘columbis,’ ‘doves;’ for ‘colubris,’ ‘snakes.’ We are told by Pliny the Elder, that Campania was famed for its doves.]
[Footnote 77: Minturnæ.--Ver. 716. This was a town of Latium; the marshes in its neighbourhood produced pestilential exhalations.]
[Footnote 78: She for whom.--Ver. 716. This was Caieta, who, being buried there by her foster-child Æneas, gave her name to the spot.]
[Footnote 79: Abode of Antiphates.--Ver. 717. Formiæ.]
[Footnote 80: Trachas.--Ver. 717. This place was also called ‘Anxur.’ Its present name is Terracina. Livy mentions it as lying in the marshes.]
[Footnote 81: Antium.--Ver. 718. This was the capital of the ancient Volscians.]
[Footnote 82: Castrum.--Ver. 727. This was ‘Castrum Inui,’ or ‘the tents of Pan;’ an old town of the Rutulians.]
EXPLANATION.
The story here narrated by Ovid is derived from the Roman history, to which we will shortly refer for an explanation.