[192] 107:35. =Eryx.= A Sicilian king, son of Venus; was killed by Hercules in a boxing contest. [193] 113:8. =Labyrinth in Crete.= The Labyrinth, a maze built by Dædalus for King Minos at Gnossus in Crete to contain the Minotaur. [194] 113:25. =Solemn.= Sacred festival, required each year. [195] 117:20. =Dis.= Ruler of the underworld, variously called Orcus, Acheron, Erebus, Avernus. Dis, or Pluto, brother of Jupiter, is called Jupiter Stygius. [196] 117:22. =Tartarus.= The abode of the wicked in the underworld. [197] 117:24. =Elysium.= The abode of the good in the underworld. [198] 120:11. =Glaucus.= A prophetic sea-god, said to be completely incrusted by “shellfish, seaweed, and stones,” so that he is used by Plato (_Rep._ X, p. 116) as the image of a soul incrusted with sin. [199] 120:12. =Ino’s Palæmon.= Ino with his son Palæmon were transformed into sea divinities. The following names are of sea divinities. [200] 121:7. =Lethe.= A river of the underworld whose waters bring forgetfulness. Styx. The main river in the underworld. [201] 121:17. =Sirens’ isle.= The Sirens were monsters with heads of women and bodies of birds who dwelt on some rocks off the Campanian coast, by the bay of Naples. Their sweet singing enticed mariners on to the rocks to be destroyed. [202] 121:24. =Naked corpse.= Burial thought essential to spirit’s peace. BOOK VI Visit of Æneas to Anchises in the world of the dead. Much of the philosophy is Stoic pantheism. The theory of the vision appears to include the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis. Ulysses in _Odyssey_, Book XI, visited the world of shades. [203] 122:11. =Sibyl.= Through the Cumæan Sibyl, Deïphobe, as the guide of Æneas through the lower world, Virgil exalts the use of the Sibylline Books in the Roman religion. It is interesting to note that the position given the Sibyl, as guide of Æneas, Dante in turn gives to Virgil as his own guide in the lower world. [204] 122:24. =Sons of Cecrops.= The Athenians yearly surrendered seven youths and seven maidens to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, because the Athenians, through envy of his success in the public games, had murdered Androgeus, son of Minos, king of Crete, and Minos had made this the condition of peace. [205] 122:31. =The edifice= is the Labyrinth, in which the Minotaur was confined. [206] 123:5. =Icarus.= Son of Dædalus, who sought to escape with his father from Crete, but flew so near the sun that the wax by which his wings were fastened on was melted, and he fell and perished in the sea called from his name Icarian. [207] 123:35. =Dardan.= Trojan. The Trojans are called by Virgil sometimes descendants of Dardanus, sometimes of Laomedon, sometimes of Anchises, again of Æneas, now Teucrians, and now Phrygians. [208] 123:36. =Æacides.= A patronymic, applied by Virgil, now to Achilles, as here, now to Pyrrhus Neoptolemus, meaning descendant of Æacus. [209] 124:35. =Dorian.= Greek.