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Dryden's Virgil, i. 556.
124 --Cranae's isle, i.e. Athens. See the "Schol." and Alberti's
"Hesychius," vol. ii. p. 338. This name was derived from one of its
early kings, Cranaus.
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25 --The martial maid. In the original, "Minerva Alalcomeneis," i.e.
the defender, so called from her temple at Alalcomene in Boeotia.
126 "Anything for a quiet life!"
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27 --Argos. The worship of Juno at Argos was very celebrated in
ancient times, and she was regarded as the patron deity of that
city. Apul. Met., vi. p. 453; Servius on Virg. Æn., i. 28.
128 --A wife and sister.
"But I, who walk in awful state above
The majesty of heav'n, the sister-wife of Jove."
Dryden's "Virgil," i. 70.
So Apuleius, l. c. speaks of her as "Jovis germana et conjux, and
so Horace, Od. iii. 3, 64, "conjuge me Jovis et sorore."
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