[Footnote 798: Are drinking by lot.--Ver. 581. The 'modimperator,' or 'master of the banquet,' was often chosen by lot by the guests, and it was his province to prescribe how much each person should drink. Lots were also thrown, by means of the dice, to show in what order each person was to drink. This passage will show the falsity of his plea in the Second Book of the Tristia, addressed to Augustus, where he says that it was not his intention to address the married women of Rome, but only those who did not wear the 'vittæ' and the 'instita,' the badges of chastity.] [Footnote 799: Agent attends even too much.--Ver. 587. His meaning seems to be, that in the same way as the agent does more than attend to the injunctions of his principal, and puts himself in a position to profit by his office, so is the inamorato, through the confidence of the husband reposed in him, to make a profit that has never been anticipated.] [Footnote 801: Eurytion.--Ver. 593. At the nuptials of Pirithous and Hippoda-mia. See the Metamorphoses, Book xii. 1. 220, where he is called Eurytus.] [Footnote 802: Stealing up.--Ver. 605. This piece of impudence he professes to practise in the Amores, Book i. El iv. l. 56.] [Footnote 803: Bird of Juno.--Ver. 627. This fact, in natural history, was probably known only to Ovid, or the peacocks of the present day may be less vain than the Roman ones. See the Metamorphoses, Book i. 1. 723.] [Footnote 804: That there should be Gods.--Ver. 637. This was the avowed opinion of some of the philosophers and atheists of antiquity. We learn from Tertullian that Diogenes, being asked if the Gods exist, answered that he did not know anything about it, but that they ought to exist. The doctrine of the Epicureans was, that the Gods lived a happy and easy life, were not susceptible of anger, and did not trouble themselves about men.] [Footnote 805: Went to Busiris.--Ver. 649. See the Tristia, Book iii. El. xi. 1. 39, where the story of Phalaris is also referred to. Thrasius was the brother of Pygmalion, and was justly punished by Busiris for his cruel suggestion.] [Footnote 806: Phoebe suffered--Ver. 679. See the story of the rape of Phoebe, by Castor and Pollux, in the Fasti, Book v. 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.]