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 BOOK VIII

Alliance of Æneas and Evander. Vulcan makes a shield for Æneas.

179:9. Amphitryon's child. Hercules—the stepson of Amphitryon.

180:12. Maia. Daughter of Atlas.

181:3. Pheneus, A town of Arcadia.

182:8. Geryon, A giant monster of Gades (Cadiz) in Spain, the keeper of beautiful cattle. He was slain by Hercules, who took the cattle across the Alps to the valley of the Tiber.

182:36. Tiryns. In Argolis, the early home of Hercules.

186:2. Hests. Commands.

186:22. Ægis. Famous shield of Jupiter (worn also by Minerva), bearing in the centre the baneful head of the Gorgon Medusa. The Ægis when shaken wrought terror and dismay on the wearer's foes. The shaking was accompanied by thunder and lightning—thus the Ægis was the symbol of the whirlwind that drives the storm-cloud.

189:19. Lemnos. An island in the Ægean Sea, the home of Vulcan.

194:21. Cuishes. Greaves, or leg coverings.

198:12. Codes. Horatius. See Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome.

196:19. Egyptian spouse. Cleopatra.

196:31. Anubis. An Egyptian god, with a dog's head.