ad Atticum," ix., 10.) (12) See Book VIII., line 3.
(13) Protesilaus, from this place, first landed at Troy.
(14) Thamyris challenged the Muses to a musical contest, and being vanquished, was by them deprived of sight.
(15) The arrows given to Philoctetes by Hercules as a reward for kindling his funeral pyre.
(16) This is the Pelasgic, not the historical, Argos.
(17) Book I., line 632; Book VII., line 904.

Agave was a daughter of Cadmus, and mother of Pentheus, king of the Boeotian Thebes.

He was opposed to the mysterious worship of Dionysus, which his mother celebrated, and which he had watched from a tree.

She tore him to pieces, being urged into a frenzy and mistaking him for a wild beast.

She then retired to another Thebes, in Phthiotis, in triumph, with his head and shoulders.