ing his
son under the delusion that he was a lion.]

[Footnote 61: The king of Argos.]

[Footnote 62: Tantalus, king of Argos, invited the gods to a banquet,
and served up the boiled flesh of his own son, Pelops.]

[Footnote 63: Phoroneus was commonly reputed to have been the founder of
the city of Argos.]

[Footnote 64: Juno employed Argus to keep guard over Io, transformed by
Jupiter into a cow. Mercury, being sent by Jupiter to rescue Io, lulled
Argus to sleep by melodious airs on the flute, and then cut off his
head.]

[Footnote 65: An oracle announced to Acrisius, king of Argos, that he
would die by the hands of his grandson. The king endeavoured to escape
his fate by imprisoning his daughter, Danae, in a brazen tower, but
Jupiter obtained access to her in the shape of a shower of gold, and she
became the mother of Perseus, who fulfilled the prediction, according to
the established legendary usage.]

[Footnote 66: The force of this taunt is weakened in Pope's translation
by the change from the second person to the third, as though the
invectives of Juno had not been addressed to Jupiter himself.]

[Footnote 67: Jupiter visited Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, in all the
majesty of the thunderer, and she was consumed by the lightning.]

[Footnote 68: Homer makes Juno say that there are three cities
pre-eminently dear to her--Argos, Sparta, and Mycenae. Samos had no less
title to the distinction. It was one of the localities which contended
for the renown of having given her birth, and was, with Argos, the
principal seat of her worship. Virgil ranks Samos second among the
places she delighted to honour.]

[Footnote 69: The river Alpheus, which takes its rise in Arcadia, loses
itself underground in parts of its course, and again reappears. This
suggested the fiction that it ran in a subterranean channel, below the
bottom of the sea, to the fountain of Arethusa in Sicily, where it once
more emerged to day. Pope had less regard to the text of Statius than to
Dryden's translation of Virgil's lines on the same legend in Ecl. x. 5:

So may thy silver streams beneath the tide,
Unmixed with briny seas, securely glide.]

[Footnote 70: The Arcadians celebrated the worship of Jupiter with human
sacrifices.]

[Footnote 71: He was king of Pisa in Elis, where was the celebrated
Olympia, with its temple of Jupiter. Oenomaus had ascertained from an
oracle that he would perish by the agency of his son-in-law, an