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. 1. 699.]

[Footnote 807: Work-baskets.--Ver. 693. See the Note to the seventy-third line of the Ninth Epistle.]

[Footnote 808: Heroines of olden times.--Ver. 713. Such as Danaë, Europa Seraele, Alcmena, Io, Calisto, Antiope, Maia, Electra, and others.]

[Footnote 809: Chaplet of Pallas.--Ver. 727. A crown of olive was presented to the victors in the athletic exercises at the Olympic games.]

[Footnote 810: Love for Lyrice.--Ver. 731. If Lyrice here is a female name, it is not known who she was.]

[Footnote 811: Daphnis.--Ver. 732. He was a Sicilian, the son of Mercury; and the inventor of Bucolic poetry.]

[Footnote 812: Pylades.--Ver. 745: Hermione was the wife of Orestes, the friend of Pylades.]

[Footnote 813: With a dart.--Ver. 763. It appears by this, that it was the custom to take fish by striking them with a javelin Salmon ere foretimes caught in a similar manner at the present day.]

FOOTNOTES BOOK TWO [Footnote 901: Sing, 'Io Pean.'--Ver. 1. This was the usual cry of the hunters, who thus addressed Apollo, the God of the chase, when the prey had been captured iu the toils. See the Metamorphoses, Book iv . 1. 513.]

[Footnote 902: Amyclæ.--Ver. 5. A town of Laconia. See the Metamorphoses,