[56] 7:3. =Biremes.= Ships having two tiers of oars. [57] 7:23. =Scylla.= A sea-monster, residing in a cave in certain rocks, also called Scylla, between Italy and Sicily. The upper part of this monster resembled a lovely woman. About the waist was a circle of dogs or wolves; below was the tail of a dolphin. The wolves reach out and seize passing ships and drag them on the rocks. Virgil’s Scylla is adopted by Milton as a description of one of the monsters guarding the gates of Hell. [58] 7:25. =Cyclops.= Certain giants of cannibal nature who dwelt in Sicily near Ætna. They had a single large round eye in the middle of the forehead. [59] 7:27. =Remembered.= “A time will come, not distantly descried, When to remember ev’ry past dismay Will be no less a pleasure than a pride; Hold then courageous on, and keep, I pray, Your noble hearts in cheer for that victorious day.” —TASSO, _Jerusalem Delivered_. [60] 7:33. =Heart-sick.= “So spoke the apostate angel, though in pain, Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair.” —MILTON, _Paradise Lost_. [61] 8:15. =Ether.= “Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all highth, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view.” —MILTON, _Paradise Lost_. [62] 8:26. =Barred.= “In vain—for rude adversity’s command Still, on the margin, of each famous land, With unrelenting ire his steps opposed, And every gate of hope against him closed.” —FALCONER, _Shipwreck_. [63] 8:37. =Antenor.= Nephew of Priam. After the capture of Troy, he sailed up the Adriatic Sea, established a new people called the Veneti, and founded Patavium (Padua). [64] 9:8. =Arms.= “And in thy tempul I wol my banur hong, And all the armes of my companye.” —CHAUCER, _Knight’s Tale_. “In my heart’s temple I suspend to thee These votive wreaths of withered memory.” —SHELLEY, _Epipsychidion_. [65] 9:13. =Piety.= “False Jupiter, rewardst thou virtue so? What, is not piety exempt from woe?” —MARLOWE AND NASH, _Dido_. [66] 9:18. =Cythera.= An island south of Laconia, near which, the tradition is, Venus rose from the foam of the sea. [67] 9:20. =Lavinium.= A city of Latium, represented as founded by Æneas and named by him for his wife Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus. It was Latinus’ promise of Lavinia to Æneas that caused the wars of the last six books of the Æneid. [68] 9:29. =Rutulians.= A Volscian people whose chief city was Antium. They with their King Turnus were the chief antagonists of Æneas when he was trying to settle in Italy. [69] 9:30. =Ascanius.= Son of Æneas. [70] 9:36. =Hector’s.= “There in stout Hector’s race three hundred years The Roman sceptre royal shall remain.”