[247] 168:7. =Janus.= An Italian god of beginnings and gateways—two-headed, since gates fall two ways. Is especially the guardian of the gates of the temple of war. [248] 168:10. =Gabine cincture.= A peculiar way of adjusting the toga. [249] 169:6 to 175:18. For this portion, omitted in the prose version, we use Conington’s verse translation. BOOK VIII Alliance of Æneas and Evander. Vulcan makes a shield for Æneas. [250] 179:9. =Amphitryon’s child.= Hercules—the stepson of Amphitryon. [251] 180:12. =Maia.= Daughter of Atlas. [252] 181:3. =Pheneus.= A town of Arcadia. [253] 182:8. =Geryon.= A giant monster of Gades (Cadiz) in Spain, the keeper of beautiful cattle. He was slain by Hercules, who took the cattle across the Alps to the valley of the Tiber. [254] 182:36. =Tiryns.= In Argolis, the early home of Hercules. [255] 186:2. =Hests.= Commands. [256] 186:22. =Ægis.= Famous shield of Jupiter (worn also by Minerva), bearing in the centre the baneful head of the Gorgon Medusa. The Ægis when shaken wrought terror and dismay on the wearer’s foes. The shaking was accompanied by thunder and lightning—thus the Ægis was the symbol of the whirlwind that drives the storm-cloud. [257] 189:19. =Lemnos.= An island in the Ægean Sea, the home of Vulcan. [258] 194:21. =Cuishes.= Greaves, or leg coverings. [259] 198:12. =Cocles.= Horatius. See Macaulay’s _Lays of Ancient Rome_. [260] 196:19. =Egyptian spouse.= Cleopatra. [261] 196:31. =Anubis.= An Egyptian god, with a dog’s head. [262] 196:34. =Mavors.= Mars. [263] 197:2. =Saba.= In Arabia. BOOK IX The attack of Turnus on the Trojan camp. [264] 198:5. =Child.= Iris. [265] 198:29. =Messapus.= A Tyrrhenian chief whose followers are from Fescennium and other places on the right bank of the Tiber. See Book VII. [266] 203:19. =Wont.= Were wont. [267] 212:5. =Ravin.= Ravages. [268] 217:12. =Kid-stars.= The Kids were two stars in the hand of Auriga, the setting of which in December was attended with heavy rains. [269] 217:24. =Padus.= The Po. [270] 217:24. =Athesis.= A river in northern Italy, now the Adige. [271] 218:22. =Prochyta.= A small island off the west of Campania, near the promontory of Micenum. [272] 218:23. =Inarime.= An island off the Campanian coast, now Ischia. BOOK X Council of the gods. [273] 226:12. =Terebinth.= Turpentine tree. [274] 227:3. =Helicon.= A mountain of Bœotia sacred to Apollo and the Muses. BOOK XI Funeral honors to the dead. The truce broken by renewal of hostilities. [275] 257:27. =Arpi.= A town of Apulia. [276] 268:5. =The pillars of Proteus= are the island of Pharos and the coast of Egypt, whither Menelaus was driven. [277] 258:8. =Monarch of Mycenæ.= Agamemnon. [278] 262:16. =Myrmidons.= See page 325. [279] 263:11. =Camilla.= A warrior princess of the Volsci. [280] 264:10. =Coras.= See page 170. [281] 265:4. =Champaign.= Plain. BOOK XII Final conflict between Æneas and Turnus. [282] 279:29. =Orichalc.= Copper.