target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_8be38327-6479-5adf-92cb-c4e8c3957805">92 A dreadful murder.]—Ver. 626. They seem to have been composed of much the same kind of lawless materials that formed the daring crews of the buccanier Morgan and Captain Kydd in more recent times.
93 Naxos.]—Ver. 636. This was the most famous island of the group of the Cyclades.
94 Ivy impeded the oars.]—Ver. 664. Hyginus tells us, that Bacchus changed the oars into thyrsi, the sails into clusters of grapes, and the rigging into ivy branches. In the Homeric hymn on this subject we find the ship flowing with wine, vines growing on the sails, ivy twining round the mast, and the benches wreathed with chaplets.
95 To a long story.]—Ver. 692. Clarke renders this line, ‘We have lent our ears to a long tale of a tub.’
96 Cithæron.]—Ver. 702. This was a mountain of Bœotia, famous for the orgies of Bacchus there celebrated.
97 My two sisters.]—Ver. 713. These were Ino and Autonoë.
98 Ghost of Actæon.]—Ver. 720. He appeals to Autonoë, the mother of Actæon, to remember the sad fate of her own son, and to show him some mercy; but in vain: for, as one commentator on the passage says, ‘Drunkenness had taken away both her reason and her memory.’
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