[Footnote 744: From Danaë.--Ver. 225. He means, that Persia was so called from Perses, the son of Andromeda, by Perseus, the son of Danaë. It is more generally thought to have been so called from a word signifying; a horse.' Achæmenes was one of the ancient kings of Persia.] [Footnote 745: Still it is fatal.--Ver. 236. 'Solet,' 'is wont,' is certainly a pre-narrative reading here to 'nocet.'] [Footnote 746: Deceiving lamp.--Ver. 245. This is as much as to remind him of the adage that women and linen look best by candle-light.] [Footnote 747: Why mention Baiæ.--Ver. 255. Baiæ was a town on the sea-shore, near Naples, famous for its hot baths. It was delightfully situate, and here Pompey, Caesar, and many of the wealthy Romans, had country seats: Seneca and Propertius refer to it as famous for its debaucheries, and it was much frequented by persons of loose character. It was the custom at Baiæ, in the summer-time, for both sexes to cruise about the shore in boats of various colours, both in the day-time and at night, with sumptuous feasts and bands of music on board.] [Footnote 748: Hostile hand.--Ver. 260. See the Fasti, Book iii. 1. 263. He means that the Arician grove was much resorted to by those engaged in courtship tad intrigues.] [Footnote 749: Borne upon unequal wheels.--Ver. 264. He alludes to Thalia, the Muse who inspires him, preferring the unequal or Hexameter and Pentameter measure of Elegiac verse.] [Footnote 750: By the lark.--Ver. 286. See the Metamorphoses, Book x.] [Footnote 751: Of Cydon.'--Ver. 293. This was a city of Crete.] [Footnote 752: Untruthful as it is.--Ver. 298. The Cretans were universally noted in ancient times for their disregard for truth. St. Paul, in his Epistle to Titus, ch. i. ver, 12, says, quoting from the Cretan poet Epimenides "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, 'The Cretans are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.' This witness is true."] [Footnote 753: By a bull!--Ver. 302. See this story explained in the Translation of the Metamorphoses, p. 70.] [Footnote 754: The sire.--Ver. 326. This was the Minotaur. See the Metamorphoses, Book viii] [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, Book vii. 1. 391, and the Epistle of Medea to Jason.] [Footnote 758: The son of Amyntor.--Ver. 337. Phoenix, the son of Amyntor, according to Homer, became blind in his latter years. See the Note to the 307th line of the Eighth Book of the Metamorphoses.]