[171] 76:5. =Lyæus.= Bacchus. As the god that makes men unbend and frees them from care, he is called Father Lyæus. [172] 78:9. =Hymen.= God of marriage. [173] 79:24. =Fame.= Cf. Bacon, _Fragment of an Essay of Fame_. “The poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravely and sententiously. They say, look how many feathers she hath, so many eyes she hath underneath; so many tongues; so many voices; she pricks up so many ears. This is a flourish; there follow excellent parables; as that she gathereth strength in going; that she goeth upon the ground, and yet hideth her head in the clouds, that in the day-time she sitteth in a watch-tower, and flieth most by night; that she mingleth things done with things not yet done, and that she is a terror to great cities.” [174] 79:31. =Cœus.= One of the Titans; was father of Latona. [175] 80:34. =Mæonian cap.= Mæonia, part of Lydia, Asia Minor. Since Lydia and Phrygia were adjacent, Mæonian = Phrygian = Trojan. [176] 81:15. =The laws.= Rome, the world’s lawgiver. [177] 83:18. =Mænad.= Mænads, or Bacchantes, women worshipping Bacchus in wild and orgiastic fashion in the woods or on mountain slopes of Cithæron. [178] 84:19. =Elissa.= Dido. [179] 84:31. =Grynean.= Refers to oracle of Apollo at Gryneum. [180] 89:29. =Hecate.= Diana, moon-goddess, is identified with Hecate, also moon-goddess. As goddess of cross-roads, Hecate was called Trivia, and is represented by three statues standing back to back. Hecate is especially a goddess of the underworld and of witchcraft. [181] 90:28. =Laomedon.= The father of Priam. He was notorious for his trickery and broken promises. Hence Trojans in a derogatory, scornful sense were termed race of Laomedon. [182] 91:38. =Tithonus.= Son of Laomedon, husband of Aurora. [183] 95:10. =Iris.= Goddess of the rainbow, the messenger of Juno. [184] 95:14. =Proserpine.= Daughter of Ceres, wife of Pluto, and hence queen of underworld. BOOK V Æneas sees the flames of Dido’s pyre and guesses their meaning. In Sicily, he institutes funeral games to Anchises. Compare funeral games of Patroclus in 23d book of _Iliad_. The contest of the ships and the equestrian exhibition are wholly original, however. The burning of the fleet was part of an old Trojan legend. [185] 99:8. =Acheron’s prison.= The underworld. [186] 99:14. =Phaethon.= The sun-god. [187] 99:23. =Talent.= A weight, not coin, of silver or gold. The Attic silver talent was worth over $1000. [188] 103:2. =Feel that they are thought strong.= The translation here is poor, the correct rendering being, “They can, because they think they can.” Virgil’s is a classical expression of the power of belief. [189] 103:12. =Portunus=, a god of harbors, is here associated with the other divinities of the deep. [190] 103:24. =The royal boy.= Ganymede, a favorite subject of art. [191] 106:38. =Amycus.= A famous boxer of Bebrycii killed by Pollux.