The Dahae were a tribe of Scythians, and the Leleges were an ancient people spread over Asia Minor.
NOTES TO BOOK NINE I.Iris, the rainbow-goddess, daughter of Thaumas, was the messenger of the gods.

Pilumnus was an ancient Latin god, and an ancestor of Turnus.
XI.

_Ida_ was the mountain in the Troad whence the wood for the fleet was taken._Berecyntia_.Cybele, the mother of the gods.

Originally a Phrygian goddess, the centre of whose worship was Mount Berecyntus.
XIV.

The 'brother' is Pluto, god of the lower world.