63/122 He was much worshipped in Lycia, hence his oracles are often called 'Lycian lots.' LV. It was at Aulis in Boeotia that the Greek expedition against Troy mustered. In this passage Virgil has in mind the _Bacchae_ of Euripides, in which Pentheus goes mad, and perhaps the _Eumenides_ of Aeschylus, but it is more probable that in the latter case he is merely thinking of Orestes as he is represented in tragedy. _Hecate_, the goddess of the lower world, sometimes identified with Proserpina, and sometimes with Diana. She was worshipped at cross-roads by night. |