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them to be redoubled.] [Footnote 18: _Eryx._--Ver. 221. This was a mountain of Sicily, now called San Juliano. On it, a magnificent temple was erected, in honor of Venus.] [Footnote 19: _Cynthus._--Ver. 221. This was a mountain of Delos, on which Apollo and Diana were said to have been born.] [Footnote 20: _Rhodope._--Ver. 222. It was a high mountain, capped with perpetual snows, in the northern part of Thrace.] [Footnote 21: _Mimas._--Ver. 222. A mountain of Ionia, near the Ionian Sea. It was of very great height; whence Homer calls it +hupsikremnos+.] [Footnote 22: _Dindyma._--Ver. 223. This was a mountain of Phrygia, near Troy, sacred to Cybele, the mother of the Gods.] [Footnote 23: _Mycale._--Ver. 223. A mountain of Caria, opposite to the Isle of Samos.] [Footnote 24: _Cithaeron._--Ver. 223. This was a mountain of Boeotia, famous for the orgies of Bacchus, there celebrated. In its neighborhood, Pentheus was torn to pieces by the Maenades, for slighting the worship of Bacchus.] [Footnote 25: _Caucasus._--Ver. 224. This was a mountain chain in Asia, between the Euxine and Caspian Seas.] [Footnote 26: _Alps._--Ver. 226. This mountain range divides France from Italy.] [Footnote 27: _Apennines._--Ver. 226. This range of mountains runs down the centre of Italy.] [Footnote 28: _Their black hue._--Ver. 235. The notion that the blackness of the African tribes was produced by the heat of the sun, is borrowed by the Poet from Hesiod. Hyginus, too, says, 'the Indians, because, by the proximity of the fire, their blood was turned black by the heat thereof, became of black appearance themselves.' Notwithstanding the learned and minute investigations of physiologists on the subject, this question is still involved in considerable obscurity.] [Footnote 29: _Libya._--Ver. 237. This was a region between Mauritania and Cyrene. The Greek writers, however, often use the word to signify the whole of Africa. Servius gives a trifling derivation for the name, in saying that Libya was so called, because +leipei ho huetos+, 'it is without rain.'] [Footnote 30: _Dirce._--Ver. 239. Dirce was a celebrated fountain of Boeotia, into which it was said that Dirce, the wife of Lycus, king of Thebes, was transformed.] [Footnote 31: _Amymone._--Ver. 240. It
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