[Footnote 1269: Waxen portrait.--Ver. 723. Waxen profiles seem to have been used by the Romans, as likenesses. They are evidently referred to in the Asinaria of Plautus, Aet iv. se. i. 1. 19, a passage which seems to have puzzled the Commentators. See the Epistle of Laodania, 1. 152, and the Note.] [Footnote 1270: Caphareus.--Ver. 735. Seethe Tristia, Book i. El. i. 1. 83, and the Note.] [Footnote 1271: Of Nmis.--Ver. 737. He falls into his usual error of confounding the daughter of Nisus with the daughter of Phorcys.] [Footnote 1272: Acroceraunia.--Ver. 739. These were tremendous rocks on the coast of Epirus.] [Footnote 1273: Thy descendant.--Ver. 743. He means that the lust of Phædra was engendered by ease and luxury. See the Metamorphoses, Book xv. 1. 498. Neptune was the great grandfather of Hippolytus.] [Footnote 1274: Gnossian.7--Ver. 745. He refers to the love of Pasiphaë for the bull.] [Footnote 1275: Hecale.--Ver. 747. Hecale was a poor old woman, wo entertained Theseus with great hospitality.] [Footnote 1276: Irus--Ver. 747. See the Tristia, Book iii. El. vii. 1. 42, and the Note.] [Footnote 1277: Being acted.--Ver. 755. See the Tristia, Book il. 1. 519, and the Note.] [Footnote 1278: Of Cos.--Ver. 760. See the Art of Love, Book iii. 1. 329, and the Note.] [Footnote 1279: Hermione.--Ver. 772. See the Epistle to Orestes.] [Footnote 1280: Of Plisthenes.--Ver. 778. Agamemnon was said, by some, to have been the son of Plisthenes, and adopted by his uncle Atreus.] [Footnote 1281: Without reason.--Ver. 779. Agamemnon declares the contrary of this in the Iliad; Briseïs, in her Epistle to Achilles, does the same.] [Footnote 1282: He did not think.--Ver. 784. Ovid has no reason or ground for this wretched quibble, but his own imagination. This sceptre of Agamemnon was made by Vulcan, who gave it to Jupiter, he to Mercury, and Mercury to Pelous, who left it to Atreus; by him it was left to Thyestes, who according to Homer, gave it to Agamemnon.] [Footnote 1283: Lotophagi.--Ver. 789. See the Tristia, Book iv. El. i. 1. 31, and the Note.] [Footnote 1284: Daunian.--Ver. 797. Daunia was a name of Apulia, in Italy. See the Metamorphoses, Book xiv. 1. 512, and the Note.] [Footnote 1285: Megara.--Ver. 798. See the Art of Love, Book ii. 1. 422.] [Footnote 1286: Sharpens the sight.--Ver. 801. Pliny says that painters and sculptors were in the habit of using rue, for the purpose of strengthening the sight.] THE END End of Project Gutenberg's Remedia A Moris or, The Remedy Of Love, by Ovid