High throned above all highth, bent down his eye,
His own works and their works at once to view."
—Milton, Paradise Lost.
8:26. Barred.
"In vain—for rude adversity's command
Still, on the margin, of each famous land,
With unrelenting ire his steps opposed,
And every gate of hope against him closed."
—Falconer, Shipwreck.
8:37. Antenor. Nephew of Priam. After the capture of Troy, he sailed up the Adriatic Sea, established a new people called the Veneti, and founded Patavium (Padua). 9:8. Arms.
"And in thy tempul I wol my banur hong,
And all the armes of my companye."
—Chaucer, Knight's Tale.
"In my heart's temple I suspend to thee These votive wreaths of withered memory." —Shelley, Epipsychidion.
9:13. Piety.
"False Jupiter, rewardst thou virtue so?
What, is not piety exempt from woe?"
—Marlowe and Nash, Dido.
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9:18. Cythera. An island south of Laconia, near which, the tradition is, Venus rose from the foam of the sea.
9:20. Lavinium. A city of Latium, represented as founded by Æneas and named by him for his wife Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus. It was Latinus' promise of Lavinia to Æneas that caused the wars of the last six books of the Æneid.
9:29. Rutulians. A Volscian people whose chief city was Antium. They with their King Turnus were the chief antagonists of Æneas when he was trying to settle in Italy.
