[Footnote 1114: Stalk of wetted flax.--Ver. 629. According to the common reading, this will mean that the letter is to be written on blank paper, with a stalk of wetted flax; which writing will afterwards appear, when a black substance is thrown upon it. Heinsius insists that the passage is corrupt, and suggests that 'alumine nitri' is the correct reading; in which case it would mean that alum water is to be used instead of ink. Vessius tells us that alum water, mixed with the juice of the plant 'tithymalum,' was used for the purposes of secret correspondence.] [Footnote 1115: Good Goddess.--Ver. 637. The debauched Clodius was detected as being present at these rites, in a female dress.] [Footnote 1116: The false key, too, tells.--Ver. 643. He plays upon the double meaning of the words, 'adultéra clavis,' which properly signifies 'a false key.'] [Footnote 1117: Even though.--Ver. 646. 'Even though you should have to go to the expense of providing the rich wines of Spain for the purpose.'] [Footnote 1118: Even she.--Ver. 663. He alludes to the accommodating lady mentioned in line 641.] [Footnote 1119: Has she filled.--Ver. 666. See his address to Cypassis, in the Amores, Book ii. El. viii.] [Footnote 1120: Lemnian dames.--Ver. 672. See the introduction to the Epistle from Hypsipyle to Jason.] [Footnote 1121: Cephaltis.--Ver. 695. This story is also related in the Seventh Book of the Metamorphoses.] [Footnote 1122: The quinces.--Ver. 705. These are called 'cydonia,' from Cydon, city of Crete.] [Footnote 1123: Cyllenian God.--Ver. 725. Cephalus was said to be the son of Mercury; but, according to one account, which is followed by Ovid in the Metamorphoses, Deioneus was his father.] [Footnote 1124: Her breath.--Ver. 746. See the corresponding passage in the Metamorphoses, Book vii. 1. 861. It was the custom for the nearest relative to catch the breath of the dying person in the mouth.] [Footnote 1125: With your fingers.--Ver. 755.. Perhaps he means in moderato quantities at a time, and not in whole handfuls. See the Note to the First Book, 1. 577.] [Footnote 1126: And do not first.--Ver. 757. He seems to irs two precepts here; first, they are not to eat so much at home as to take away all appetite at the banquet, as that would savour of affectation, and be an act of rudeness to the host. On the other hand, he warns them not to stuff as long as they are able, but rather to leave off with an appetite. The passage, however, is hopelessly corrupt, and is capable of other interpretations.] [Footnote 1127: Perform their duty.--Ver. 764. 'Constent,' literally. 'Will stand together.'] [Footnote 1128: The swans.--Ver. 899. He also alludes to them in the Metamorphoses, as drawing the car of Venus, though that office was more generally assigned by the Poets to doves.] END End of Project Gutenberg's Ars Amatoria, or The Art Of Love, by Ovid