A famous temple of Diana stood here, tended by a priest who was a runaway slave.
He gained his office by slaying his predecessor and held it only so long as he could escape a similar fate.Cf.stanza ciii.
'Velia's fountains,' a lake in the Umbrian hills beyond Reate.
LXXXVII.

Agylla was the original name of Caere.
XC.

Homole and Othrys were mountains in Thessaly.
XCI.

The Anio flows through the hills near Tibur, and joins the Tiber close to 'Antemnae's tower-girt height.' Cf.

stanza lxxxiv.
Anagnia was the largest town of the Hernici, and Amasenus was a river of Latium.
XCIII.