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 151:29. Turnus. Son of Daunus and the nymph Venilia, was king of the Rutulians, a people of Latium. He led the Italian forces against Æneas, but was at last slain by Æneas in single combat, as described in the last of Book XII.

153:19. The eating of tables was foretold by the Harpy and Anchises, in Book III, page 59.

159:19. Bellona. Goddess of war and bloodshed, an old Italian deity—sister of Mars.

159:26. Allecto. One of the Furies. Her sisters were Megæra and Tisiphonë.

160:11. Amata. Queen of Latium, wife of King Latinus.

165:15-17. Trivia's lake (= Diana's), Nar, Veline.

"The lake of Diana on the Alban Mount, far to the southeast of the Tiber, and the Nar and Velinus far to the northeast, i.e. the whole country around heard the sound. The lake of Diana is now called Lake Nemi, near Ariccia, 15 miles south of Rome. The river Nar runs between Umbria and the Sabine country, and falls into the Tiber. The lake Velinus was produced by the overflow of the river Velinus and was led into the Nar by a channel cut through a ledge of rock by the consul M. Curius Denatus, B.C. 270. This produced the celebrated fall of Terni."

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168:7. Janus. An Italian god of beginnings and gateways—two-headed, since gates fall two ways. Is especially the guardian of the gates of the temple of war.

168:10. Gabine cincture. A peculiar way of adjusting the toga.

169:6 to 175:18. For this portion, omitted in the prose version, we use Conington's verse translation.