rbon.']

[Footnote 63: _Beheld by my eyes._--Ver. 505. Ovid here makes
Arethusa the discoverer to Ceres of the fate of her daughter. In
the Fourth Book of the Fasti, he represents the Sun as giving her
that information, in which he follows the account given by Homer.
Apollodorus describes the descent of Pluto as taking place at
Hermione, a town of Argolis, in Peloponnesus, and the people of
that place as informing Ceres of what had happened to her
daughter.]

[Footnote 64: _If you call it finding._--Ver. 520. This remark of
the Goddess is very like that of the Irish sailor, who vowed that
a thing could not be said to be lost when one knows where it is;
and that his master's kettle was quite safe, for he knew it to be
at the bottom of the sea.]

[Footnote 65: _Plucked a pomegranate._--Ver. 535. It was for this
reason that the Thesmophoriazusae, in the performance of the rites
of Ceres, were especially careful not to taste the pomegranate.
This fruit was most probably called 'malum,' or 'pomum punicum,'
or 'puniceum,' from the deep red or purple color of the inside,
and not as having been first introduced from Phoenicia.]

[Footnote 66: _Seven grains._--Ver. 537. He says here 'seven,' but
in the Fourth Book of the Fasti, only 'three' grains.]

[Footnote 67: _Ascalaphus._--Ver. 539. He was the son of Acheron,
by the Nymph Orphne, or Gorgyra, according to Apollodorus. The
latter author says, that for his unseasonable discovery, Ceres
placed a rock upon him; but that, having been liberated by
Hercules, she changed him into an owl, called +oton+. The Greek
name of a lizard being +askalabos+, Mellman thinks that the
transformation of the boy into a newt, or kind of lizard, which
has just been related by the Poet, may have possibly originated in
a confused version of the story of Ascalaphus.]

[Footnote 68: _Avernus._--Ver. 540. Avernus was a lake of
Campania, near Baiae, of a fetid smell and gloomy aspect. Being
feigned to be the mouth, or threshold, of the Infernal Regions,
its name became generally used to signify Tartarus, or the
Infernal Regions. The name is said to have been derived from the
Greek word +aornos+, 'without birds,' or 'unfrequented by birds,'
as they could not endure the exhalations that were emitted by it.]

[Footnote 69: _Phlegethon._--Ver. 544. Thi