Specimens of Modern French Verse With Biographical And Critical Notes And An
Specimens of Modern French Verse With Biographical And Critical Notes And An
Henry Edward Berthon
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These lines are imitations of the Odyssey xi. 36, of Virgil's Aeneid vi. 305-308, and Georgia iv. 471. 197. Lemnos : an island in the Aegean where Hephaestus (Vulcan) had his smithy. 199. D'Arachne': i. E. Of the spider. Arachne was a woman of Colophon who, having challenged the NOTES 221 PAGE LINE goddess Athene to a trial of skill in needlework, was changed by her, when defeated, into a spider, inconnus has here the meaning of 'invisible. ' 9. 200. Ce fer mobile : referring to the strong yet ...delicate iron net which Hephaestus (Vulcan) threw around Aphrodite (Venus) and Ares (Mars) at their love- tryst. See Odyssey viii. 267. 202. La fi&re Niob^ : Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, king of Lydia, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes, was so proud of her numerous family that she insulted Leto (Latone), who had only two. The goddess, in revenge, caused these two, Apollo and Artemis (Diana), to kill all Niobe's children with arrows, and to change the mother into a stone. 204. A6don was the sister of Niobe.
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