"But both Dione honored they and Cupid,
That as her mother, this one as her son,
And said that he had sat in Dido's lap."
—Dante, Paradiso.
24:6. Lamps.
"As heaven with stars, the roof with jewels glows,
And ever-living lamps depend in rows."
—Pope, Temple of Fame.
24:15. Bacchus. Son of Jupiter and Semele, god of wine, and, by metonymy, used to mean wine. (Name of god for his realm, as Vulcan for fire, etc.).
"Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest." —Goldsmith, Deserted Village.
24:25. Atlas. A king of Mauretania; father of the Pleiades; he supported the heavens on his shoulders. He was skilled in astronomy. Personification of Mount Atlas. 24:25. Song.
"He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame:
How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame,
Fell through the mighty void, and in their fall
Were blindly gathered in this goodly ball.
The tender soil, then stiff'ning by degrees,
Shut from the bounded earth, the bounding seas.
Then earth and ocean various forms disclose;
And a new sun to the new world arose;
And mists, condensed to clouds, obscure the sky,
And clouds, dissolved, the thirsty ground supply.
The rising trees the lofty mountains grace;
The lofty mountains feed the savage race,
Yet few, and strangers, in th' unpeopled place.
From thence the birth of man the song pursued,
And how the world was lost, and how renewed."
—Dryden, Translation of Ecl. VI. Cf. Æn. VI.
