Let the old woman come.--Ver. 329. In sickness it was the custom to purify the bed and chamber of the patient, with sulphur and eggs. It seems also to have been done when the patient was pining through unrequited love. Apulius mentions a purification by the priest of Isis, who uses eggs and sulphur while holding a torch and repeating a prayer. The nurse of the patient seems here to be directed to perform the ceremony.] [Footnote 961: The Fasti, Book ii. 1. 19, and Book iv. 1. 728. From a passage of Juvenal, we find that it was a common practice to purify with eggs and sulphur, in the month of September, * On Athos.--Ver. 517. See the Metamorphoses, Book ii. 1. 217, and the Note.] [Footnote 962: On Hybla.--Ver. 517. See the Tristia, Book v. El. xiii. 1. 22.] [Footnote 963: Off your head.--Ver. 528. Iphis, in the fourteenth Book of the Metamorphoses, 1. 732, raises his eyes to the door-posts of his mistress, 'so often adorned by him with wreaths.'] [Footnote 964: The senses.--Ver. 532. He seems to believe, with Nixon d'Enelos, in the existence of a sixth sense.] [Footnote 965: Of mighty Jove.--Ver. 540. He alludes to the triumphal procession to the Capitol.] [Footnote 966: Gentle sleep.--Ver. 546. See the Amores, Book iii. El. i. 1. 51. He means to say that husbands give a certain latitude to their wives, who do not fail to improve upon it.] [Footnote 967: Own husband.--Ver. 551. See the Amores, Book i. El. iv. 1. 38.] [Footnote 968: Other men visit.--Ver. 554. 'Viri' seems to be a better reading than 'viro.'] [Footnote 969: Mars and Venus.--Ver. 562. See the Metamorphoses, Book iv. 1. 173.] [Footnote 970: Says, laughing.--Ver. 585. See a similar passage in the Metamorphoses, Book iv. 1. 187.] [Footnote 971: For Thrace.--Ver. 588. He was much venerated by the warlike Thracians.] [Footnote 972: Paphos.--Ver. 588. See the Metamorphoses, Book x. 1. 298.] [Footnote 973: Fire and water render.--Ver. 598. Among the Romans, when the bride reached her husband's house, he received her with fire and water, which it was the custom for her to touch. This is, by some, supposed to have been symbolical of purification; or it was an expression of welcome, as the interdiction of fire and water was the formula for banishment.] [Footnote 974: My sallies.--Ver. 600. See Book L 1. 31, and the Note. See also the Fasti, Book iv. 1. 866, and the Note.] [Footnote 975: The rites of Ceres.--Ver. 601. He alludes to the mysterious rites of Ceres, in the island of Samothrace.] [Footnote 976: Not enclosed in chests.--Ver. 609. Certain chests were carried in the procession at the festival of Ceres, the contents of which, if there were any, was a mystery to the uninitiated.] [Footnote 977: The left hand.--Ver. 614. This is the attitude of the Venus de Medicis.] [Footnote 978: At a heavy price.--Ver. 626. Men spend their money on debauchery, only for the pleasure of talking of it.]