The _Athesis_ is the modern Adige.

The _Padus_ is the Po.
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Sarpedon was a Lycian prince who had fought for the Trojans at Troy and been slain by Patroclus.

'Theban' here refers to the town of Thebe in Cilicia, mentioned by Homer.
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_Baiae_ was a favourite seaside resort of the rich Romans on the bay of Naples.
_Prochyta_ and _Arime_ were two rocky islands dose to the bay of Naples.
Typhoeus was a hundred-headed monster slain by Jupiter and buried under Prochyta and Arime.
NOTES TO BOOK TEN I.Olympus was a mountain in Thessaly, and was believed by the Greeks to be the home of the gods.