FOOTNOTES
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Ovid and Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
1281 (return) [ Without reason.—Ver. 779. Agamemnon declares the contrary of this in the Iliad; Briseïs, in her Epistle to Achilles, does the same.]
1282 (return) [ He did not think.—Ver. 784. Ovid has no reason or ground for this wretched quibble, but his own imagination. This sceptre of Agamemnon was made by Vulcan, who gave it to Jupiter, he to Mercury, and Mercury to Pelous, who left it to Atreus; by him it was left to Thyestes, who according to Homer, gave it to Agamemnon.]
1283 (return) [ Lotophagi.—Ver. 789. See the Tristia, Book iv. El. i. 1. 31, and the Note.]
1284 (return) [ Daunian.—Ver. 797. Daunia was a name of Apulia, in Italy. See the Metamorphoses, Book xiv. 1. 512, and the Note.]
1285 (return) [ Megara.—Ver. 798. See the Art of Love, Book ii. 1. 422.]
1286 (return) [ Sharpens the sight.—Ver. 801. Pliny says that painters and sculptors were in the habit of using rue, for the purpose of strengthening the sight.]