ice, which was taken from it, and placed on the burning
altar. According to Festus, the word meant a small altar, which
was placed before the dead, and on which perfumes were burnt. The
Law of the Twelve Tables restricted the use of 'acerrae' at
funerals.]

[Footnote 25: _Meleager._--Ver. 270. He was the son of Oeneus, king
of Calydon, a city of AEtolia, who had offended Diana by neglecting
her rites.]

[Footnote 26: _Palladian juice._--Ver. 275. Oil, the extraction of
which, from the olive, Minerva had taught to mortals.]

[Footnote 27: _Epirus._--Ver. 283. This country, sometimes also
called Chaonia, was on the north of Greece, between Macedonia,
Thessaly, and the Ionian sea, comprising the greater part of what
is now called Albania. It was famous for its oxen. According to
Pliny the Elder, Pyrrhus, its king, paid particular attention to
improving the breed.]

[Footnote 28: _Bristles too._--Ver. 285. This line, or the
following one, is clearly an interpolation, and ought to be
omitted.]

[Footnote 29: _Palisades._--Ver. 286. The word 'vallum' is found
applied either to the whole, or a portion only, of the
fortifications of a Roman camp. It is derived from 'vallus,' 'a
stake;' and properly means the palisade which ran along the outer
edge of the 'agger,' or 'mound:' but it frequently includes the
'agger' also. The 'vallum,' in the latter sense, together with the
'fossa,' or 'ditch,' which surrounded the camp outside of the
'vallum,' formed a complete fortification.]

[Footnote 30: _Sons of Tyndarus._--Ver. 301. These were Castor and
Pollux, the putative sons of Tyndarus, but really the sons of
Jupiter, who seduced Leda under the form of a swan. According to
some, however, Pollux only was the son of Jupiter. Castor was
skilled in horsemanship, while Pollux excelled in the use of the
cestus.]

[Footnote 31: _Pirithoues._--Ver. 303. He was the son of Ixion of
Larissa, and the bosom friend of Theseus.]

[Footnote 32: _Sons of Thestius._--Ver. 304. These were Toxeus and
Plexippus, the uncles of Meleager, and the brothers of Althaea, who
avenged their death in the manner afterwards described by Ovid.
Pausanias calls them Prothoues and Cometes. Lactantius adds a
third, Agenor.]

[Footnote 33: _Lynceus._--Ver. 304. Lynceus and Idas were the sons
of Apha