"I, who erewhile the happy garden sung,
By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
Recovered Paradise to all mankind,
By one man's firm obedience."
—Milton, Paradise Regained.
1:1. Troy. A city in northwest Asia Minor where the famous Trojan war took place. 1:3. Latian. The broad plain near the mouth of the Tiber, in Italy. 1:5. Juno. Queen of the gods; wife and sister of Jupiter. 1:5. Much.
"Much there he suffered,
And many perilles past in forreine landes,
To save his people sad from victours vengefull handes,"
—Spenser, Faerie Queene.
1:8. Alba. Alba Longa, a long ridge some fifteen miles southeast of Rome. The successors of Æneas reigned there until the founding of Rome. 1:10. Muse. One of the nine Muses. Greek and Latin poets often profess to be merely the mouthpiece of the Muses. 1:14. Hate.
"And in soft bosoms dwell such mighty rage?"
—Pope, Rape of the Lock.
"In heavenly spirits could such perverseness dwell?"
—Milton, Paradise Lost.
1:17. Tyre. Carthage was sprung from Tyre, an old and prosperous city on the coast of Phœnicia. The founders of Carthage and their descendants are termed indifferently by Virgil Phœnicians, Sidonians, Pœni, or Tyrians.
