Poem 68. The daughter of Juno, born without a father. Horus, the Egyptian god, represented as a child on Isis’s lap with his finger on his lips. Golgi, a town in Cyprus associated with the worship of Venus. The priests of Cybele, so called from the River Gallus in Phrygia, whose waters maddened those who drank them. Probably Marcus Furius Bibaculus, a Cremonese and one of the new poets.
Poem 6. An unidentified friend of Catullus. A kind of tribal song perhaps from Fescennium in Etruria. Wine from Falernia, a district in Northern Campania famous for its high quality wine-making. A river in Laconia not far from Sparta.Īn unidentified friend of Catullus, who may have served in Spain and Macedonia. They were the personified pangs of cruel conscience that pursued the guilty. The Three Sisters were Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera, the daughters of Night and Uranus. The ‘ Kindly Ones’, The Furies, or Erinyes. The people of Erectheus are the Athenians. King of Athens, son of Pandion, father of Orithyia and Procris. Modern Durres, on the Adriatic, where Venus was worshipped. A mountain in Mysia (Phrygia) in Asia Minor, sacred to Ceres and Cybele. ‘Diana of the crossroads.’ As the moon, she loved Endymion, a Carian shepherd, with whom she fell in love seeing him naked on the top of Mount Latmos. Called Trivia, the goddess of the three ways. (See Luca Penni’s – Diana Huntress – Louvre, Paris, and Jean Goujon’s sculpture (attributed) – Diana of Anet – Louvre, Paris.) (Skelton’s ‘Diana in the leaves green, Luna who so bright doth sheen, Persephone in hell’) Callisto is one of her followers. She is worshipped as the triple goddess, as Hecate in the underworld, Luna the moon, in the heavens, and Diana the huntress on earth. She was born on the island of Ortygia which is Delos (hence her epithet Ortygia). Daughter of Jupiter and Latona (hence her epithet Latonia) and twin sister of Apollo. The navel stone in the precinct at Delphi was taken as the central point of the known world. The site of the oracle of Apollo in Phocis. (Pausanias VIII xlvii, mentions the sacred palm-tree, noted there in Homer’s Odyssey 6, 162, and the ancient olive.) In a variant she gave birth to Artemis-Diana on the islet of Ortygia nearby. Having been hounded by jealous Juno (Hera), she gave birth there to the twins Apollo and Diana, between an olive tree and a date-palm on the north side of Mount Cynthus. A wandering island, that gave sanctuary to Latona (Leto). Poem 34.The Greek island in the Aegean, one of the Cyclades, birthplace of, and sacred to, Apollo (Phoebus) and Diana (Phoebe, Artemis), hence the adjective Delian. Another name for the Troad, from Dardanus an ancestor of the Trojan people.
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