r new-made wings, in vain she gave
him cold kisses with her hardened bill. The people were in doubt whether
Ceyx was sensible of this, or whether, by the motion of the wave, he
seemed to raise his countenance; but {really} he was sensible of it;
and, at length, through the pity of the Gods above, both were changed
into birds. Meeting with the same fate, even then their love remained.
Nor, when {now} birds, is the conjugal tie dissolved: they couple, and
they become parents; and for seven calm days,[56] in the winter-time,
does Halcyone brood upon her nest floating on the sea.[57] Then the
passage of the deep is safe; AEolus keeps the winds in, and restrains
them from sallying forth, and secures a {smooth} sea for his
descendants.

[Footnote 33: _The profane Phorbas._--Ver. 414. The temple at
Delphi was much nearer and more convenient for Ceyx to resort to;
but at that period it was in the hands of the Phlegyans, a people
of Thessaly, of predatory and lawless habits, who had plundered
the Delphic shrine. They were destroyed by thunderbolts and
pestilence, or, according to some authors, by Neptune, who swept
them away in a flood. Phorbas, here mentioned, was one of the
Lapithae, a savage robber, who forced strangers to box with him,
and then slew them. Having the presumption to challenge the Gods,
he was slain by Apollo.]

[Footnote 34: _Names upon tombs._--Ver. 429. Cenotaphs, or
honorary tombs, were erected in honour of those, who having been
drowned, their bodies could not be found. One great reason for
erecting these memorials was the notion, that the souls of those
who had received no funeral honours, wandered in agony on the
banks of the Styx for the space of one hundred years.]

[Footnote 35: _Hippotas._--Ver. 431. AEolus was the grandson of
Hippotas, through his daughter Sergesta, who bore AEolus to
Jupiter. Ovid says that he was the father of Halcyone; but,
according to Lucian, she was the daughter of AEolus the Hellenian,
the grandson of Deucalion.]

[Footnote 36: _Brilliant fires._--Ver. 436. Ovid probably here had
in view the description given by Lucretius, commencing Book i.
line 272.]

[Footnote 37: _In double rows._--Ver. 462. By this it is implied
that the ship of Ceyx was a 'biremis,' or one with two ranks of
rowers; one rank being placed above the other. Pliny the Elder
attributes the in