Book vii

. 1.]

[Footnote 955: At first.--Ver. 467. See the beginning of the First Book of the Metamorphoses.]

[Footnote 956: Unclean mate.--Ver. 486. He alludes to the strong smell of the he-goat.]

[Footnote 957: Machaon.--Ver. 491. He was a famous physician, son of Æsculapius, and was slain in the Trojan war. See the Tristia,