[Footnote 121: Apollo was specially worshipped by the Lycians.] [Footnote 122: The celebrated fountain sacred to Apollo on Parnassus.] [Footnote 123: Apollo was surnamed the Cynthian, from Mount Cynthus in the island of Delos, which was the place of his birth, and the most revered of all the localities set apart for his worship. The island, which had previously floated over the ocean, was, according to one version of the legend, rendered stationary by Jupiter when Apollo was born; according to another version, it was subsequently fixed by Apollo himself.] [Footnote 124: The walls of Troy were the work of Apollo and Neptune.] [Footnote 125: In the first edition it was Thou dost the seeds of future wars foreknow.] [Footnote 126: The Phrygian was Marsyas, who contended on the flute against Apollo with his lyre. When the umpires decided in favour of the god, he flayed Marsyas for his presumption.] [Footnote 127: Tityus assaulted the mother of Apollo, and her son shot the offender.] [Footnote 128: Niobe, because she had seven sons and seven daughters, thought herself superior to Latona, who had only one son, and one daughter,--Apollo and Diana. These divinities, in revenge, destroyed the fourteen children of Niobe.] [Footnote 129: In the first edition: He views his food, would taste, yet dares not try, But dreads the mould'ring rock that trembles from on high. Apollo intrigued with Coronis, the daughter of Phlegyas. Her enraged father retaliated by firing the temple of Apollo, and was consigned for his rebellion to perpetual torture in the infernal regions. His terror lest the impending rock should crush him is a circumstance interpolated by Pope from Virgil's description of the punishment of Pirithous and Ixion, and the expression "mould'ring rock" is taken from Dryden's translation of the passage, Æn. vi. 816: High o'er their heads a mould'ring rock is placed That promises a fall, and shakes at ev'ry blast. The revolting nature of the food itself is the reason assigned by Statius why Phlegyas forebore to partake of it, and preferred to endure the pangs of hunger.] [Footnote 130: After Apollo, in the later mythology, had been identified with the sun, all the names personifying the sun, of which Titan was one, became applicable to Apollo.] [Footnote 131: Diodorus maintained that the Osiris of the Egyptians was their god of the sun, and Statius has adopted this erroneous view. According to the statement of Herodotus, Osiris answered to the Grecian Bacchus, and there is little doubt that the old historian was right.]