[Footnote 813: With a dart.--Ver. 763. It appears by this, that it was the custom to take fish by striking them with a javelin Salmon ere foretimes caught in a similar manner at the present day.] FOOTNOTES BOOK TWO [Footnote 901: Sing, 'Io Pean.'--Ver. 1. This was the usual cry of the hunters, who thus addressed Apollo, the God of the chase, when the prey had been captured iu the toils. See the Metamorphoses, Book iv. 1. 513.] [Footnote 902: Amyclæ.--Ver. 5. A town of Laconia. See the Metamorphoses, Book x. 1. 219, and the Note.] [Footnote 903: Erato.--Ver. 16. He addresses himself to this Muse, as her name was derived from the Greek 'love.' It has been suggested that he had another reason for addressing her, as she was thought to take pleasure in warfare, a state which sometimes, by way of variety, exists between lovers.] [Footnote 904: A bold path.--Ver. 22. This story is again related in the Eighth Book of the Metamorphoses.] [Footnote 905: Like oars.--Ver. 45. He aptly compares the arrangement of the main feathers of a wing to a row of oars.] [Footnote 906: Orion.'--Ver. 56. So in the Metamorphoses, Book v. 1. 206, he says to his son Icarus, 'Fly between both: and I bid thee neither to look at Bootes, nor Helice, nor the drawn sword of Orion.'] [Footnote 907: Is angling.--Ver. 77. There is a similar passage in the Metamorphoses, 1. 216.] [Footnote 908: The Clarian God.--Ver. 80. See the Fasti, Book i. 1. 20, and the Note.] [Footnote 909: And Calymne.--Ver. 81. These peaces are mentioned in the corresponding passages in the Metamorphoses, Book viii. 1. 222.] [Footnote 910: Astypalæa..--Ver. 82. This was an isle in the group of the Sporades, between Crete and the Cyclades. It contained but one city, and was long and narrow, and of rugged appearance.] [Footnote 911: The young horse.--Ver. 100. See the Amoves. Book i. El. viii 1. 8, and the Note.] [Footnote 912: The Marsian spells.--Ver. 102. The 'naenia' was a mournful dirge or chaunt uttered by the sorcerer in his incantations. On the Marsi, see the Sixth Book of the Fasti, 1. 142, and the Note to the passage.] [Footnote 913: Causing paleness.--Ver. 105. Philtres were noxious potions, made of venomous or stimulating ingredients, prescribed as a means of gaining the affections of the person to whom they were administered.] [Footnote 914: Nireus.--Ver. 109. See the Pontic Epistles, Book iv. Ep. xiii. 1. 16, and the Note to the passage.] [Footnote 915: Charming Hylas.--Ver. 110. See the Tristia, Book ii. 1.] [Footnote 916: Ocean Goddesses.--Ver. 124. Calypso was really the only sea Goddess that was enamoured of Ulysses. Circe was not a sea Goddess.] [Footnote 917: Blood of Dolon.'--Ver. 135. See the Metamorphoses, Book xiii. line 244.] [Footnote 918: Hjemontan horses--Ver. 136. The steeds of Achilles.]