“The clouds their gloomy veil above them strain, Nor suffer sun or star to cheer the view. ... While aye descending night, with deeper shade, The vext and fearful billows overlayed.” —ARIOSTO, _Orlando Furioso_. [35] 4:9. =Æneas.= Son of Venus and Anchises, hero of the _Æneid_. [36] 4:9. =Chilled.= “His bold Æneas on like billows tossed In a tall ship, and all his country lost Dissolves with fear; and, both his hands upheld, Proclaims them happy when the Greeks had quelled In honorable fight.” —WALLER, _Of the Dangers his Majesty Escaped_. [37] 4:12. =Thrice.= “Thrice happy, four times happy, they who fell On Troy’s wide field warring for Atreus’ sons: O, had I met my fate and perished there.” —HOMER, _Odyssey_. [38] 4:14. =Tydeus’ son.= Diomedes, with whom Æneas had fought in single combat and been saved by direct intervention of Venus. [39] 4:16. =Hector.= Son of Priam, king of Troy, and Hecuba. Hector was the bravest champion of Troy, and was slain by Achilles. [40] 4:17. =Æacides.= A descendant of Æacus (king of Ægina and father of Peleus). Virgil applies the name to (1) Achilles, (2) Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, (3) Perseus, king of Macedonia. [41] 4:18. =Sarpedon.= Son of Jupiter, and king of the Lycians; an ally of Troy slain by Patroclus, friend of Achilles. [42] 4:18. =Simois.= The famous river that flows by Troy. “And Simoïs, in whose bed lay many shields And helms and bodies of slain demigods.” —HOMER, _Iliad_. [43] 4:23. =Stars.= Hyperbole; cf.— “The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds; The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.” —SHAKESPEARE, _Othello_. [44] 4:26. =Crest.= “Now quivering o’er the topmost waves she rides While deep beneath the enormous gulf divides: Now launching headlong down the horrid vale, Becalmed she hears no more the howling gale.” —FALCONER, _Shipwreck_. [45] 4:33. =Syrtes.= Two shallow bays on the north coast of Africa distinguished as Major and Minor,—dangerous to navigation. [46] 5:8. =Side-jointings.= “The chinks suck destruction. The heavy dead hulk On the living sea rolls an inanimate bulk.” —SHELLEY, _Vision of the Sea_. “The sides convulsive shook on groaning beams, And, rent with labour, yawn’d their pitchy seams.” —FALCONER, _Shipwreck_. [47] 5:11. =Neptune.= God of the sea,—brother of Juno. [48] 5:22. =Confound.= “I heard the wrack, As earth and sky would mingle.” —MILTON, _Paradise Lost_. “While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.”