Verse 4. Lavinian Coast.] So call’d from Lavinia, the Daughter of King Latinus, and Wife of Æneas. One of the Commentators, indeed, derives the Name from Lavinus, the Brother of Latinus; but is at a Loss to prove there was ever such a Person.
Verse 36. Her injur’d Form, &c.] The Reader may please to observe, that this irreconcileable Hatred of Juno to the Trojans, was owing altogether to the Neglect of her Beauty, in all the Instances here mentioned; Paris had prefer’d Venus, and Jupiter Electra to Her: She had, indeed, more than a personal Quarrel with Ganymede, because he was advanc’d to be Cupbearer to Jupiter, in the Room of Hebe her only Daughter.
Verse 53. And why could Pallas, &c.] Ajax the Less, as Homer calls him, the Son of Oileus, and Leader of the Locrians, in his Return from Troy, was overtaken by a violent Tempest, and himself Thunderstruck by Pallas, in Revenge for having ravish’d Cassandra, the Daughter of Priam, in her Temple. Homer gives us a different Account, in the Fourth Book of the Odyssey, and says, that he was drown’d by Neptune for his execrable Blasphemies, and Defiance of the Gods, in a Storm.
