[Footnote 21: _Perrhæbean._--Ver. 172. The Perrhæbeans were a people of Thessaly, who, having been conquered by the Lapithæ, betook themselves to the mountain fortresses of Pindus.]
[Footnote 22: _Eloquent old man._--Ver. 176-181. Clarke renders these lines, 'Come, tell us, O eloquent old gentleman, the wisdom of our age, who was that Cæneus, and why he was turned into the other sex? in which war, or what engagement, he was known to you? by whom he was conquered, if he was conquered by any one?' Upon that, the old blade replied.']
[Footnote 23: _Two hundred._--Ver. 188. Ovid does not here follow the more probable version, that the age of Nestor was three generations of thirty years each.]
[Footnote 24: _The Atracian._--Ver. 209. 'Atracides' is an epithet, meaning 'Thessalian,' as Atrax, or Atracia, was a town of Thessaly, situated near the banks of the river Peneus.]
[Footnote 25: _Hippodame._--Ver. 210. She is called Ischomache by Propertius, and Deidamia by Plutarch.]
[Footnote 26: _With the fires._--Ver. 215. These fires would be those of the nuptial torches, and of the altars for sacrifice to Hymenæus and the other tutelary divinities of marriage.]
[Footnote 27: _Clots of blood._--Ver. 238. Clarke renders 'Sanguinis globos,' 'goblets of blood.']
[Footnote 28: _Double-limbed._--Ver. 240. Clarke translates, 'Ardescunt bimembres,' 'The double-limbed fellows are in a flame.']
[Footnote 29: _Shattered cask._--Ver. 243. 'Cadi' were not only earthenware vessels, in which wine was kept, but also the vessels used for drawing water.]
[Footnote 30: _A chandelier._--Ver. 247. 'Funale' ordinarily means, 'a link,' or 'torch,' made of fibrous substances twisted together, and smeared with pitch or wax. In this instance the word seems to mean a chandelier with several branches.]
[Footnote 31: _A votive stag._--Ver. 267. It appears that the horns of a stag were frequently offered as a votive gift to the Deities, especially to Diana, the patroness of the chase. Thus in the seventh Eclogue of Virgil, Mycon vows to present to Diana, 'Vivacis cornua cervi,' 'The horns of a long-lived stag.']
[Footnote 32: _Cheeks covered._--Ver. 291. 'Prima tectus lanugine malas,' is not very elegantly rendered by Clarke, 'Having his chaps covered with down, then first putting out.']