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her brother Saturn; while Oceanus, the son of Coelus and Vesta, married his sister Tethys.] [Footnote 51: _Sons of AEolus._--Ver. 506. AEolus had six sons, to whom he was said to have given their sisters for wives. In the case, however, of his daughter Canace, who was pregnant by her brother Macareus, AEolus was more severe, as he sent her a sword, with which to put herself to death.] [Footnote 52: _Clean wax tablets._--Ver. 521. Before the tablet was written upon, the wax was 'vacua,' empty; or, as we say of writing-paper, 'clean.' There was a blunt end to the upper part of the 'stylus,' or iron pen, with which the wax was smoothed down when any writing was erased.] [Footnote 53: _Without my name._--Ver. 531-2. 'Sine nomine vellem Posset agi mea causa meo,' is rendered by Clarke, 'I could wish my business might be transacted without my name.'] [Footnote 54: _In the margin._--Ver. 564. Clarke translates, 'Summusque in margine versus adhaesit,' 'And the last line was clapped into the margin.'] [Footnote 55: _Meandrian youth._--Ver. 573. Caunus was the grandson of the river Maeander.] [Footnote 56: _Part of my sail._--Ver. 589. She borrows this metaphor from sailors, who, before setting out, sometimes unfurl a little portion of the sail, to see how the wind blows.] [Footnote 57: _Rather of the two._--Ver. 598. Willing to believe anything in the wrong rather than herself; she is sure that the day was an unlucky one.] [Footnote 58: _Be attacked._--Ver. 615. 'Repeteudas erit,' Clarke translates, 'I must at him again.'] [Footnote 59: _Founds a new city._--Ver. 633. This was Caunus, a city of Caria.] [Footnote 60: _Ismarian._--Ver. 641. Ismarus was a mountain of Thrace. The festival here alluded to was the 'trieterica,' or triennial feast of Bacchus.] [Footnote 61: _Bubasian matrons._--Ver. 643. We learn from Pliny the Elder that Bubasus was a region of Caria.] [Footnote 62: _Leleges._--Ver. 644. The Leleges were a warlike people of Caria, in Asia Minor, who were supposed to have sprung from Grecian emigrants, who first inhabited the adjacent island, and afterwards the continent. They were said to have their name from the Greek word +lelegmenoi+ 'gathered,' because they were collected from various places.] [Footnote 63: _Cragos._--
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