stanza xxiv.
XL.

The 'son of Maia' is Mercury.
XLII.

Harpalyce was the daughter of a Thracian king and a famous huntress.
XLIX._Byrsa_.This word, originally the Semitic word for 'citadel,' was thought by the Greeks to be their own word _Byrsa_ meaning 'a bull's hide.' This mistake was probably the cause of the legend given by Virgil.
LV.

_Paphos_ in Cyprus was one of the chief centres of the worship of Venus.
LX.

Priam was the king of Troy, and the Atridae were Agamemnon and Menelaus.