that he refers to the story of
Thyoneus, the son of Bacchus, who, having stolen an ox from some
Phrygian shepherds, was pursued by them; on which Bacchus, to
screen his son, changed the ox into a stag, and invested Thyoneus
with the garb of a hunter.]

[Footnote 51: _Father of Corythus._--Ver. 361. Paris was the
father of Corythus, by Oenone. He was said to have been buried at
Cebrena, a little town of Phrygia, near Troy.]

[Footnote 52: _Maera._--Ver. 362. This was the name of the dog of
Icarius, the father of Erigone, who discovered the murder of his
master by the shepherds of Attica, and was made a Constellation,
under the name of the Dog-star. As, however, the flight of Medea
was now far distant from Attica, it is more likely that the Poet
refers to the transformation of some female, named Maera, into a
dog, whose story has not come down to us; indeed, Lactantius
expresses this as his opinion. Burmann thinks that it refers to
the transformation of Hecuba, mentioned in the 13th book, line
406; and that 'Maera' is a corruption for some other name of
Hecuba.]

[Footnote 53: _Eurypylus._--Ver. 363. He was a former king of the
Isle of Cos, in the AEgean Sea, and was much famed for his skill as
an augur.]

[Footnote 54: _The Coan matrons._--Ver. 363. Lactantius says that
the women of Cos, extolling their own beauty as superior to that
of Venus, incurred the resentment of that Goddess, and were
changed by her into cows. Another version of the story is, that
these women, being offended at Hercules for driving the oxen of
AEgeon through their island, were very abusive, on which Juno
transformed them into cows: to this latter version reference is
made in the present passage.]

[Footnote 55: _Hercules._--Ver. 364. He besieged and took the
chief city of the island, which was also called Cos; and having
slain Eurypylus, carried off his daughter Chalciope.]

[Footnote 56: _Phoebean Rhodes._--Ver. 365. The island of Rhodes,
in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Asia Minor, was sacred to
the Sun, and was said never to be deserted by his rays.]

[Footnote 57: _Ialysian Telchines._--Ver. 365. Ialysus was one of
the three most ancient cities of Rhodes, and was said to have been
founded by Ialysus, whose parent was the Sun. The Telchines, or
Thelchines, were a race suppos