[Footnote 1078: A little table receives.}--Ver. 365. This game is mentioned in the Tristia, Book ii. 1. 481. It seems to resemble the simple game played by schoolboys on the slate, and known among them as tit-tat-to.] [Footnote 1079: No trusting.--Ver. 377. On account of the continued run of bad luck.] [Footnote 1080: Flying ball.'--Ver. 380. See the Tristia, Book ii. 1. 485-6, and the Note.] [Footnote 1081: The Virgin.--Ver. 385. This was near the Campus Martius. See the Fasti, Book i. 1. 464; and the Pontic Epistles, Book i. Ep. viii. 1. 38, and the Note.] [Footnote 1082: Etrurian.--Ver. 386. The Tiber flowed through ancient Etruria.] [Footnote 1083: The Virgin.--Ver. 388. He alludes to the heat while the sun is passing through the Constellation Virgo.] [Footnote 1084: Parætonium.--Ver. 390. See the Amores, Book ii. El. xiii. 1. 7, and the Note. He alludes to the victory of Augustus over Antony and Cleopatra, at Actium; on which the conqueror built the temple of Apollo on the Palatine hill.] [Footnote 1085: The suter and the wife.--Ver. 391. Livia, the wife, and Octavia, the sister of Augustus, are referred to.] [Footnote 1086: His son-in-law.--Ver. 392. The allusion is to M. Agrippa, the husband of Julia, the daughter of Augustus; after the defeat of the younger Pompey, Augustus presented him with a naval crown. A Portico built by Augustus was called by his name.] [Footnote 1087: Memphian heifer.--Ver. 393. See the Amores, Book i. El. viii. 1. 74.] [Footnote 1088: Frequent the three Theatres.--Ver. 394. He probably alludes to the theatres of Pompey, Balbus, and Marcellus, as they are mentioned by Suetonius as the 'trina theatra.'] [Footnote 1089: Glowing wheels.--Ver. 396. See the Amores, Book iii. El. ii.] [Footnote 1090: Thamyras.--Ver. 399. He was a Thracian poet, who challenged the Muses to sing, and, according to Homer, was punished with madness. Diodorus Siculus says that he lost his voice, while the Roman poets state that he lost his sight. Amoebeus was a famous lute-player of Athens.] [Footnote 1091: Of Cos.--Ver. 401. See the Pontic Epistles, Book iv. Ep. i. 1. 29.] [Footnote 1092: Poets were.--Ver. 405. Euripides was the guest of Archelaüs king of Macedonia, Anacreon of Polycrates king of Samos, and Pindar and Bacchilides of Hiero king of Sicily.] [Footnote 1093: Placed near to thee.--Ver. 410. According to some accounts, the ashes of Ennius were deposited in the tomb of the Scipios, by the older of his friend Scipio Africanus.] [Footnote 1094: Its own Priam.--Ver. 440. Priam and Antenor advised that Helen should be restored to Menelaus.] [Footnote 1095: Liquid nard.--Ver. 443. There were two kinds of nard, the 'foliated,' and the 'spike' nard. It was much esteemed as a perfume by the Romans.] [Footnote 1096: Narrow belt.--Ver. 444. He probably means a girdle that fitted tightly, and caused the 'toga' to set in many creases. See the Notes to the Fasti, Book v. 1. 675.]