Book iii

. El. vi. 1. 4, and the Note.]

[Footnote 1009: Another bride.--Ver. 34. Jason deserted Medea for Creusa.]

[Footnote 1010: Nine journies.--Ver. 37. See the Epistle of Phyllis to Demophoon.]

[Footnote 1011: Two treatises.--Ver. 47. His former books on the Art of Love.]

[Footnote 1012: Who before had uttered.--Ver. 49. He alludes to the Poet Stesichorus, on whose lips a nightingale was said to have perched and sung, when he was a child. Pliny relates that he wrote a poem, inveighing bitterly against Helen, in which he called her the firebrand of Troy, on which he was visited with blindness by her brothers, Castor and Pollux, and did not recover his sight till he had recanted in his Palinodia, which he composed in her praise. Suidas says, that Stesichorus composed thirty, six books of Poems. Helen was born at Therapnæ, a town of Laconia.]

[Footnote 1013: Your own privileges.--Ver. 58. 'Sua' seems to mean the privileges sanctioned and conceded by the law, probably to those females who were in the number of the 'professae.']

[Footnote 1014: No door.--Ver. 71. So Horace says, in his address to Lydia,