—MILTON, _Comus_. [11] 1:21. =Samos.= A large island off the west coast of Asia Minor. Here were the most ancient temple and worship of Juno, here she was nurtured, and here she was married to Jupiter. [12] 1:28. =Libya.= North Africa. [13] 2:1. =Fate’s.= “Those three fatall Sisters, whose sad hands Doo weave the direful threads of destinie And in their wrath brake off the vitall bands.” —SPENSER, _Daphnaïda_. “Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.” —MILTON, _Lycidas_. “Sad Clotho held the rocke [distaff], the whiles the thrid By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, That cruell Atropos eftsoones undid, With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine.” —SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_. [14] 2:1. =Saturn.= An ancient Italian god of agriculture, identified later with the Greek god Cronos. [15] 2:3. =Argos.= A city of Argolis in the Peloponnesus. One of Juno’s favorite cities. Juno’s love for Argos played the same part in the Trojan war as her regard for Carthage plays in the _Æneid_. It is used here poetically for the name of the people, _i.e._ = Greeks. [16] 2:6. =Paris.= A son of Priam, king of Troy, who eloped with Helen and caused the Trojan war. The judgment was the award of the golden apple, prize of beauty, to Venus as against Juno and Minerva. “Here eke that famous golden apple grew, The which emongest the gods, false Ate threw; For which th’ Idæan Ladies disagreed, Till partiall Paris dempt it Venus dew, And had of her fayre Helen for his meed.” —SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_. In Tennyson’s _Œnone_, Juno offers— “from all neighbor crowns Alliance and allegiance till thy hand Fail from the sceptre-staff.” And Minerva— “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control.” But Venus— “I promise thee The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.” [17] 2:9. =Ganymede.= A Trojan prince; was carried off to Olympus by Jupiter’s eagle. He was made cup-bearer to the gods in place of Hebe, daughter of Juno. “And godlike Ganymede, most beautiful Of men; the gods beheld and caught him up To heaven, so beautiful was he, to pour The wine to Jove, and ever dwell with them.” —HOMER, _Iliad_. “flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh Half-buried in the Eagle’s down, Sole as a flying star shot thro’ the sky Above the pillar’d town.” —TENNYSON, _Palace of Art_. [18] 2:10. =Danaan.= Greek. Danaus, an ancient city of Argos. Conington transliterates various proper names, such as Argives, Achæans, Pelasgians, all meaning Greeks. Vergil uses the originals now to secure variety, now to meet the metrical requirement.