[235] 148:10. =Quirinus.= Romulus. [236] 149:7. =Laurentian.= Laurentum, a town on the coast of Latium, a city of King Latinus. [237] 149:14. =Gate of ivory.= “A recent writer has reminded us that dreams after midnight were accounted true both by the Greeks and the Romans. Hence he concluded that Virgil, in making Æneas issue by the gate of false dreams, is indicating that Æneas comes forth from the underworld before midnight. As to the time of Æneas’ stay in the lower world see lines 255, 535-539. He is in the land of the shades from dawn until nearly midnight.”—KNAPP. “By those who think this book a symbolic exhibition of certain mysteries, the legend of the Gate, with the dismissal of Æneas from the ivory one, is considered a warning that the language may not be taken literally, or understood except by the initiated.”—GREENOUGH. “Anchises conducts Æneas and the Sibyl to the ivory gate as the one which affords the easiest and quickest ascent to the upper world. They are thus saved the toil of ascending by the way they came, which, according to the words of the Sibyl, 128, 129, would have been a work of great labor.”—FRIEZE. BOOK VII Arrival of Æneas in Latium and commencement of hostilities between the Latins and Trojans. [238] 150:1. =Caieta.= Æneas buries his nurse on a promontory of Latium which he called after her—now called Gaeta. [239] 151:8. =Erato.= Name of one of the Muses. [240] 151:14. =Tyrrhenian.= The Tyrrheni were a people of Asia who had settled in Etruria, a district north of Italy. Hence used synonymously for Etrurian, Tuscan—Italian. Œnotrian is still another term. [241] 151:29. =Turnus.= Son of Daunus and the nymph Venilia, was king of the Rutulians, a people of Latium. He led the Italian forces against Æneas, but was at last slain by Æneas in single combat, as described in the last of Book XII. [242] 153:19. =The eating of tables= was foretold by the Harpy and Anchises, in Book III, page 59. [243] 159:19. =Bellona.= Goddess of war and bloodshed, an old Italian deity—sister of Mars. [244] 159:26. =Allecto.= One of the Furies. Her sisters were Megæra and Tisiphonë. [245] 160:11. =Amata.= Queen of Latium, wife of King Latinus. [246] 165:15-17. =Trivia’s lake= (= Diana’s), =Nar=, =Veline=. “The lake of Diana on the Alban Mount, far to the southeast of the Tiber, and the Nar and Velinus far to the northeast, i.e. the whole country around heard the sound. The lake of Diana is now called Lake Nemi, near Ariccia, 15 miles south of Rome. The river Nar runs between Umbria and the Sabine country, and falls into the Tiber. The lake Velinus was produced by the overflow of the river Velinus and was led into the Nar by a channel cut through a ledge of rock by the consul M. Curius Denatus, B.C. 270. This produced the celebrated fall of Terni.”—FRIEZE.