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[Footnote 755: If the Cretan dame.--Ver. 327. This was Ærope, the wife of Atreus, who slew the children of his brother Thyestes, and set them on table before their father.]

[Footnote 756: Who spoiled.---Ver. 331. He falls into his usual mistake of confounding Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, with the daughter of Phorcys.]

[Footnote 757: The flames.--Ver. 335. See the Metamorphoses,