[Footnote 17: _And when the Procession shall pass on with the Ivory Deities, do you applaud most the Statue of _Lady_ Venus._ Thus the Original. The Paraphrase preserves the same Sense, though in other Circumstances. These Statues were carried in Procession on many Occasions, particularly at the _Maegalesian_ Games.] [Footnote 18: _Adjusting her cushion._] [Footnote 19: _Putting a Foot-stool under her._] [Footnote 20: The Original mentioned the Fights of the _Gladiators_. The Paraphrase comes as near as our Customs admit; for the _British_ Ladies never attend to see Men kill one another in jest.] [Footnote 21: _Augustus Caesar_ among other rich Shews, with which he entertained the People, exhibited to them a Sea-Fight in a Place dug on purpose near the banks of the _Tyber_. The Poet takes this occasion of introducing many Compliments to the Grandson of this Prince. We have done little more than altered Names in this Place; and as we are assured all here said is as properly applicable to the noble Person to whom we have transferred it, the learned Reader will admire that any Passage in an antient Author can be so apposite to the present Times, and the true _English_ Reader will be no less delighted to see _Ovid_ introduced as singing forth the Praises of the _British Hero_.] [Footnote 22: _Parthia._] [Footnote 23: The _Crassi_.] [Footnote 24: _Hercules._] [Footnote 25: _Bacchus._] [Footnote 26: The Original here described the many Nations who are led Captives.] [Footnote 27: Here we have inverted the Original; but sure the Sense upholds us in so doing.] [Footnote 28: _Baiae_, a Place not far from _Naples_, famous for wholesome as well as pleasant Baths. It is described very largely by _Diodorus_; and _Horace_ mentions it as the pleasantest Place in the World.] [Footnote 29: In the Original, the Temple of _Diana_ in the Suburbs. It stood in a Grove not far from Rome. The next Line, _Partaque per gladios, &c._ alludes to a very singular Custom, by which the Priests of this Temple succeeded to each other, _viz._ by Conquest in single Combat, for which every Slave or Fugitive was admitted to contend, and the Victor was rewarded with the Priesthood. This Practice was renewed every Year, and was, as _Strabo_ informs us, originally taken from the _Scythians_.] [Footnote 30: _Byblis_ fell in love with her Brother _Caunus_; and upon his rejecting her Addresses, hanged herself. The Poets feign she was afterwards turned into a Fountain. See _Metam._ IX.]