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 NOTES. 61 tributed oracles, and the art of divination: He is said to be e son of Jupiter and Latona, and brother of Diana, born at. los. He is also said to have killed the set pent Pitho, because We heat of the sun dries up the pestilential vapours of the earth: Pre was represented to wear long hair, in imitation of the sun ams; the laurel was consecrated to him, because the heathens lieved, that a laurel leaf being laid under a sleeping man's pil. v made him dream truly. The fable of his feeding Admetus's eep was to denote, that all creatures receive particular benefit om the nourishing warmth of the sun; and his killing the clops for forging Jupiter's thunderbolts, alluded to the sun's spersing those vapours, that occasion the changes of the air d various distempers in human bodies. He is called the sun heaven, Bacchus on earth, and APOLLO in hell; and is repre- inted with a harp to shew us the harmony of the spheres; with buckler, to signify he is the defender of the carth; and with frows to denote his power of life and death. PAGE 3.--STANZA IV. Through PHEBUS whalsome heat. PHEBUS, a name given to Appollo, or the Sun. This word presses the brightness and splendour of that luminary. PAGE: 4.—STANZA VI. Whase Muse surmatches myne. The Muses are the mistresses of the Sciences and the Goddess. of all poets and musicians, over whose works they are suppos. to preside. They are the daughters of Jupiter, and were prn on the mountain Pierius. Their mother was the nymph nemosyne, which in Greck, signifies memory. Their general me signifies inquiring. They are nine in number, and each distinguished for a particular accomplishment. PAGE 5.-STANZA VIII. While CUPID wak’nes with the cries. CUPID, various are the origins which this god is said to have d. But the most general is, that he was born of Venus by ar's He is pictured as armed with two darts: the one or ld which procures love, and the other of lead which causes