Upon the Chorus.
Tempe] A pleasant Valley in Thessaly, watered
with the River Peneus.
Phthia] the Country of Achilles, and the Myrmidons
who went with him to the war of Troy, being a very
valiant people, and at first sprung from Pismires, at the
Vote of Æacus, which Jupiter granted because his land
was laid wast by a Pestilence.
Ovid Met. 7.
------ parcum genus est, patiensq; laborum
Quæsitique tenax, & quod quæsita reservet.
------ A people given to spare
Patient of Labour: what they get, preserve.
Trachin.] A very stony Countrey by the Mount
Oeta.
Jolcos] The Countrey of Jason who ventur'd for
the Golden Fleece.
Or hundred citied Crete] An Island at the Mouth
of the Ægean Sea famous for an hundred Cities, therefore
called Εκατομπολις, now Candia.
Gortyne.] A Town in Crete.
Tricca] A Town in Thessaly.
Methony] A City in Thrace.
Oetian Woods] from the Mount Oeta where Hercules
burnt himself.
Olenus] A Town of Elis, a Country of Greece,
watered by the River Alpheus.
Pleuron Diana's Enemy] A City of Ætolia, the
Country of Meleager, whose Father Oeneus, when he
had sacrificed to other Gods, and omitted the rites of
Diana, she incensed, sent a great a Bore, who spoyl'd
all the Country, but was slain at last by
Meleagrus.
Troezen] A Maritimate of Peloponesus, the Country
of Theseus.
Peleon] A Town of Thessalie, whose denomination
is from the Mountain Peleon the Country of Protheus,
a Grecian Captain against Troy.
The third Step] It is fabl'd, that when the great
Gygantomachy was that they heaped one Mountain upon
another to come at heaven, the first was Pelion, upon
which they threw Ossa; the next was Olympus.
See Ovid. Met. 1.
Chiron] One of the Centaures, very skilful in
Medicine and Chyrurgery, whose habitation was in this
place, where he became the Schoolmaster to
The Cruel youth] Achilles, who learned of
him Medicine, Musick and Horsemanship.
Carystos] An Island, one of the Cyclades noted
for Marble.
Chalcis] A City of Eubæa divided from Aulis in
Bæotia, by
Euripus the unquiet Sea] which ebbs and flowes
seven times in the space of twenty four hours. Into this
Sea Aristotle because he could not find out the cause, cast
himself with
------ Quia Ego non possum capere te, tu capias me.
Because I cannot comprehend thee, do thou take me.
Echinæ] Or Echinides, small Islands right against
the mouth of the River Achelous.
Gonvessa] A Town in Ætolia.
Enispæ] Islands in the Ægean.
Ptrithados] A Village by Attica, a Country of
Grece.
Elusis] A City not far from Athens, from Elusius,
who kindly received Ceres, when she sought after her
Daughter Proserpina. Here her Sacrifices were yearly
performed, called
Hidden rites] because they were performed in the
Twy-light, with Torches, and only by Women, whose
mysteries it was a great crime to blab, or reveal to any.
Salamin] An Island in the Eubæick Sea, opposite
to Athens, the Country of Ajax Telamonius.
Calidonia] A City in Ætolia, where the Bore
(mentioned note 11.) ranged.
Bessa and Scarphe] two Cities of Thessaly, by
which runs the River Titaressus.
Pylus] A Town in the West of Peloponesus, the
habitation of Nestor
Pharis] A City of Laconia.
Pisa] A City of Elis under the protection of
Jove.
Elis] A Country of Greece, and also a Town
in that Country, where the Olympic gains were celebrated
every fifth year.
Sparta] The Country of Helena, a City in Peloponesus,
renowned for the Laws of Lycurgus.
Argos] A City in Peloponesus hard by Athens, from
which the Greecians were called Argolici.
Pelops Mycena] The Kingdome of Agamemnon,
once under the Regiment of Pelops Son to Tantalus, from
whom all that Region took its name Peloponesus, in which
this City stood.
Nevitus] A Mountain in Ithaca.
Zacynthus] An Island under the Government of
Ulysses.
Ithaca] The Country of Ulysses, an Island in
the Ionian Sea, full of sharp rocks.
