[Footnote 29: _Phocean._--Ver. 276. Daulis was a city of Phocis; a district between Bœotia and Ætolia, in which the city of Delphi and Mount Parnassus were situate.]
[Footnote 30: _Our Divinities._--Ver. 279. ‘Nostra veneratus numina,’ is translated by Clarke, ‘and worshipping our Goddessships.’]
[Footnote 31: _Some saluting them._--Ver. 295. That is, crying out χαῖρε, χαῖρε, the usual salutation among the Greeks, equivalent to our ‘How d’ye do?’ From two lines of Persius, it seems to have been a common thing to teach parrots and magpies to repeat these words.]
[Footnote 32: _Lands of Pella._--Ver. 302. Pella was a city of Macedonia, in that part of it which was called Emathia. It was famed for being the birthplace of Philip, and Alexander the Great.]
[Footnote 33: _Pæonian._--Ver. 303. Pæonia was a mountainous region of Macedonia, adjacent to Emathia.]
[Footnote 34: _Evippe._--Ver. 303. Evippe was the wife of Pierus, and the mother of the Pierides.]
[Footnote 35: _Achaia._--Ver. 306. The Achaia here mentioned was the Hæmonian, or Thessalian Achaia. The other parts of Thessaly were Phthiotis and Pelasgiotis.]
[Footnote 36: _Aganippe._--Ver. 312. Aganippe was the name of a fountain in Bœotia, near Helicon, sacred to the Muses. It is called Hyantean, from the ancient name of the inhabitants of the country.]
[Footnote 37: _Venus as a fish._--Ver. 331. The story of the transformation of Venus into a fish, to escape the fury of the Giants, is told, at length, in the second Book of the Fasti.]
[Footnote 38: _Wings of an Ibis._--Ver. 331. The Ibis was a bird of Egypt, much resembling a crane, or stork. It was said to be of peculiarly unclean habits, and to subsist upon serpents.]
[Footnote 39: _We of Aonia._--Ver. 333. The Muses obtained the name of Aonides from Aonia, a mountainous district of Bœotia.]
According to Plutarch, the adventure of the Muses with Pyreneus, and of their asking wings of the Gods to save themselves, is a metaphor, which shows that he, when reigning in Phocis, was no friend to learning. As he had caused all the institutions in which it was taught to be destroyed, it was currently reported, that he had offered violence to the Muses, and that he lost his life in pursuing them. Ovid is the only writer that mentions him by name.