[Footnote 28: Σύριγγες. Ammianus Marcellinus, Β. xxii, thus describes the Σύριγγει or subterraneous burying places of the Egyptian kings. "Sunt et syringes subterranei quidam et flexuosi secessus, quos (ut fertur) periti rituum vetusterum adventare diluvium præscii, metuentesque ne ceremoniarum obliteraretur memoria, penitus operosis digestos fodinis, per loca diversa struxerunt; et excisis parietibus, volucrum ferarumque genera multa sculpserunt, et animalium species innumeras multas, quas hieroglyphicas literas appellarunt, Latinis ignorabiles."] [Footnote 29: See Herod. ii. 19-25; and a note in Blakesley's edit. on ii. 17.] [Footnote 30: The reader will keep in mind that it is Charicles who speaks now to Calasiris; otherwise, between the double narration going on at the same time, of Calasiris to Cnemon, and of Charicles to Calasiris, he may be a little confused.] [Footnote 31: Κατάδουποι--the cataracts of the Nile, also the parts in Ethiopia in which they are.--Herod. ii. 17. Cicero calls them Catadupa.] [Footnote 32: Οἴνοπα πόντον.--Il. i. 350.] [Footnote 33: See Anthon's Lemprière's Classical Dict.] [Footnote 34: "Where, perhaps, some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes."--Milton. ] [Footnote 35: "Solâ contenta Dianâ, Æternum telorum et virginitatis amorem Intemerata colit."--Virg. Æn. xi. 583. ] [Footnote 36: Ύπάτας--either from 'υπάτος, eminent, or υποτάσσω, to be subjected.] [Footnote 37: "Ast illum, ereptæ magno inflammatus amore Conjugis, et scelerum Furiis agitatus, Orestes Excipit incautum, patriasque obtruncat ad aras."--Virg. Æn. iii. 330. ] [Footnote 38: 'Τὴν χάριν ἐν πρωτοις, ἀυτὰρ κλέος ὒστατ' ἓχουσαν Φράζεσθ' ὧ Δελφοὶ, τόν τε θεᾶς γενέτην. Οἱ νηὸν προλιπόντες ἐμον, καὶ κῦμα τεμόντες, Ἡξοντ' ἠελίου πρὸς χθόνα κυανἐην, Tῆπερ ἀριστοβίων μἐγ' 'ἀέθλιον ἐξάψονται, Λευκὸν ἐπἰ κροτἀφων στέμμα μελαινομἐνων. ] [Footnote 39: _Why sable brows?_--μελαινομἐνων?--_I am not obliged to explain oracles._ Such is the remark of a former translator. I venture to suggest that the young lovers were rather sun-burnt with travelling, upon their arrival in Ethiopia; and Lisle is of my opinion, for he translates--"their _tanned_ temples." The first line seems intended to be a play upon the name of Chariclea, χάρις κλέος. I have accordingly endeavoured to convey this in the translation.] BOOK III.