BOOK IX

The attack of Turnus on the Trojan camp.

[264] 198:5. =Child.= Iris.

[265] 198:29. =Messapus.= A Tyrrhenian chief whose followers are from Fescennium and other places on the right bank of the Tiber. See Book VII.

[266] 203:19. =Wont.= Were wont.

[267] 212:5. =Ravin.= Ravages.

[268] 217:12. =Kid-stars.= The Kids were two stars in the hand of Auriga, the setting of which in December was attended with heavy rains.

[269] 217:24. =Padus.= The Po.

[270] 217:24. =Athesis.= A river in northern Italy, now the Adige.

[271] 218:22. =Prochyta.= A small island off the west of Campania, near the promontory of Micenum.

[272] 218:23. =Inarime.= An island off the Campanian coast, now Ischia.

Council of the gods.

[273] 226:12. =Terebinth.= Turpentine tree.

[274] 227:3. =Helicon.= A mountain of Bœotia sacred to Apollo and the Muses.