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 NOTES. 3 es which he had; and Dido, disconsolate for the loss of her band whom she tenderly loved, and by whom she was equal. steenied, set sail in quest of a settlement, with a number of rions, to whom the cruelty of the tyrant became odious. PAGE 13.-STANZA XXV. I call'd to mind how DAPHNE did. DAPHNE, a daughter of the river Peneus, or of the Ladon, by goddess Tarra, of whom Appollo became enamoured. This sion had been raised by Cupid, with whom Appollo, proud of late conquest over the serpent Python, had disputed the drer of his darts. Daphne heard with horror the adresses of god, and endeavoured to remove herself from his importuni. by flight. Appollo pursued her, and Daphne, fearful of ng caught, entreated the assistance of the gods, who changed into a laurel. Appollo crowned his head with the leaves che laurel, and for ever ordered that that tree should be ed to his divinity. PAGE 16.-STANZA XXXI. Wherefore hath ATROPOS that knife. Atropos, one of the Parcæ, daughter of Nox and Erebus. cording to the derivation of her name, immutabilis, she is in. rable and inflexible, and her duty among the threc sisters is out the thread of life without regard to sex, age, or quality. was represented by the ancients in a black veil, with a pair cissars in her hand. PAGE 16.-STANZA XXXI. Which CLOTHO scarce hath spun. CLOTHO, the youngest of the three Parcæ, daughters of Jupi. and Themis, was supposed to preside over the moment that are born. She held the distaff in her hand, and spun the ad of life. She was represented wearing a crown with seven s, and covered with a variegated robe.