(Aesch., "Eumenides", line 2.) (9) The modern isle of Ischia, off the Bay of Naples.
(10) The Tyrians consulted the oracle in consequence of the earthquakes which vexed their country (Book III., line 225), and were told to found colonies.
(11) See Herodotus, Book VII., 140-143.

The reference is to the answer given by the oracle to the Athenians that their wooden walls would keep them safe; which Themistocles interpreted as meaning their fleet.
(12) Cicero, on the contrary, suggests that the reason why the oracles ceased was this, that men became less credulous.
("De Div.", ii., 57) Lecky, "History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne", vol.i., p.

368.
(13) This name is one of those given to the Cumaean Sibyl mentioned at line 210.

She was said to have been the daughter of Apollo.
(14) Probably by the Gauls under Brennus, B.C.

279.
(15) These lines form the Latin motto prefixed to Shelley's poem, "The Demon of the World".
(16) Referring to the visit of Aeneas to the Sibyl.