[Footnote 1239: The sock of Comedy.--Ver. 376. The 'soccus' was a low shoe, which did not fit closely, and had no tie. These shoes were worn among the Greeks by both men and women. The 'soccus' was worn by comic actors, and was in this respect opposed to the 'cothurnus,' or 'buskin,' of Tragedy.] [Footnote 1240: Drag on its foot.--Ver. 378. He alludes first to a genuine lambic line, ending with an Iambus, and then to a Scazonic line, so called from the Greek word, 'limping,' which was a kind of bastard Iambic line, having a Trochee (or foot of a long and a short syllable) in the last place, instead of an Iambus. Scazonic lines were much used in satirical composition.] [Footnote 1241: Cydippe--Ver. 382. Callimachus wrote a poem on the loves of Acontius and Cydippe. See Epistles xx and xxi.] [Footnote 1242: Andromache.--Ver. 383. She was a heroine of Tragedy, while Thais, the courtesan, figured in the Eunuchus, a Comedy of Terence.] [Footnote 1243: Noble Epic.--Ver. 396. 'Epos'seems preferable here to 'opus,' the common reading. * Disgust.--Ver. 432. This passage and that in 1. 437, are necessarily somewhat modified.] [Footnote 1244: Procris. J--Ver. 453. See the Translation of the Metamorphoses, p 262.] [Footnote 1245: Wife from Ida.'--Ver. 454. He refers to Clytemnestra being supplanted by Cassandra.] [Footnote 1246: The brother of.--Ver. 455 Alcmæon was married to Alphesibea, the daughter of Phegeus, and deserted her for Calirrhoë, the daughter of the river Achelous.] [Footnote 1247: Odrysian.--Ver. 459. He here alludes to the story of Tereus and Progne.] [Footnote 1248: Than she who.--Ver. 464. 'Quæ' seems to be a preferable reading to 'cui though in either case the sense is the same. Ovid had probably the instance of Niobe in his mind, when he wrote this passage. See the Metamorphoses, B. vi. 1. 297.] [Footnote 1249: Had ordered.--Ver. 473. See the Introduction to the Epistle of Briseis to Achilles.] [Footnote 1250: If the first syllable.--Ver. 476. Ovid, with his propensity for playing upon words, remarks upon the similarity of the names, Chryseis and Seis; the one being the daughter of Chryses, and the other of Briser.] [Footnote 1251: Appear asleep.--Ver. 499. See the Amores, B. ii. El. v. 1. 13.] [Footnote 1252: And let not this.--Ver. 513. The reading of this line and the next is probably corrupt. Burmann suggests that 'propositus' should lie substituted for 'propositis,' and that the stop should be removed from the end of 'amàndi,' and a semicolon placed after 'propositus.' In that case, the meaning would be, 'You must, however, act the deceiver to yourself, and must not make any determination to cease altogether from loving her; lest, as the horse struggles against the rein, your affection should rebel against such a determination.'] [Footnote 1253: Collinian.--Ver. 549. See the Fasti, B. iv. 1. 8'2, and the Note.]