[Footnote 1208: Son of Poeas.--Ver. 111. See the Metamorphoses, Book x. L 45, and the Note.] [Footnote 1209: Plane-tree.--Ver. 141. The shade of this tree was much valued as a place of resort for convivial parties. Wine was sometimes poured upon its roots.] [Footnote 1210: To defend.--Ver. 151. See the Fasti, Book i. 1. 22, and the Note.] [Footnote 1211: Into the ranks.--Ver. 152. He recommends the idle man to become a candidate for public honours: on which occasion, the party canvassing wore a white 'toga,' whence he was called 'candidatus,' literally, 'one clothed in white.'] [Footnote 1212: Flying Parthian.--Ver. 155. See the Art of Love, Book i. 1. 177, and the Note.] [Footnote 1213: Ætolian.--Ver. 159. Ætolia was the native country of Diomedes.] [Footnote 1214: Waging it.--Ver. 165. He might have gone to Troy, and taken part in that war; unless, indeed, as Ovid hints in another passage, his intrigue did not commence with Clyteinnestra till after Troy had fallen, and Cassandra had become the captive of Agememnon.] [Footnote 1215: Fly from the yew trees.--Ver. 185. 'Fumos,' 'smoke,' is a better reading here than 'taxos,' 'yews,' inasmuch as the swarm of bees would be driven away by smoke, but not by the yew, which was not noxious to the swarm, though it was thought to make the honey of a poisonous nature, or bitter, according to Pliny. See the Amores, B. i. El. xii. 1. 10, and the Note.] [Footnote 1216: Bending osiers.--Ver. 186. The beehives, if stationary, were made of brick, or baked cow dung; if moveable, they were made from a hollow block of wood, cork, bark, earthenware, and, as in the present instance, wicker-work, or osier. Those of cork were deemed the best, and those of earthenware the worst, as being most susceptible to the variations of the temperature.] [Footnote 1217: The grafting.--Ver. 195. The process of engrafting was performed in the spring. * Feather-foils.--Ver. 203. See the Fasti, B. v. L 173, and the Note.] [Footnote 1218: Nor let the Sabbaths.'--Ver. 219. It is supposed that the Romans in some measure imitated the Jews in the observance of their Sabbath, by setting apart every seventh day for the worship of particular Deities. See the Art of Love, Book i. lines 76 and 416, and the Notes.] [Footnote 1219: Allia.--Ver. 220. See the Art of Love, Book i. 1. 413; and the Ibis, 1. 221, and the Notes.] [Footnote 1220: Still is.--Ver. 224. By the use of the word 'adhuc,' 'still,' or 'up to this time,' he intends to pay a compliment to Augustus, by implying that they will not long remain unconquered.] [Footnote 1221: Paternal home.--Ver. 239. Literally, 'paternal Lar.' On the Lares, see the Fasti, Book i. 1. 136; and Book v. 1. 140, and the Notes.]