1 P. 222, l. 194. _Through Chrysa's cruel sting._ Chrysa was an island
near the Troad, sacred to a goddess of the name. Her precinct was
guarded by a serpent, whose bite, from which Philoctetes suffered,
was incurable. See below p. 254, l. 1327.
2 P. 226, l. 344. _The fosterer of my sire._ Phoenix, the tutor of
Achilles.
3 P. 227, l. 351. _For I ne'er | Had seen him._ The legend which makes
Achilles go to Troy from Scyros is probably ignored.
4 l. 384. _Vile offset of an evil tree._ Alluding to the supposed
birth of Odysseus. See on Ai., l. 190, p. 60 [sic. should be p. 49].
5 P. 230, l. 489. _Of old Chalcodon._ One of the former generation, a
friend and neighbour of Poeas the father of Philoctetes.
6 P. 237, l. 729. _Of him, whose home is in the skies._ Heracles,
imagined as transfigured on Mount Oeta.
7 P. 254, l. 1328. _The sky-roofed fold._ The open precinct that was
sacred to the goddess, merely surrounded by a wall. See above, note
on p. 222, l. 194.