Lemnos, one of the largest islands of the Ægæan Sea

10. — Crète, the modem Oandia^ noted in mythology as one of the stopping-places of the Argonauts.

*Ossianio poetrj" is represented chiefly by the work of James Macpherson, who published what purported to be prose versions of the Works of the old bard. These versions are undoubtedly, in the main, Macpherson’s own invention, though founded on a real basis of tradition al poetry.

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85. 10. — Liabyrinth©. The allusion is to the famous maze of passages made by Dædalus for king Minos of Crete, from which no one who entered could escape, and in the middle of which was placed the devouring monster, the Minotaur.

11. — Arifl.nft. Ariadne [ar i ad' ne), daughter of Minos, gave

Theseus the due by which he escaped from the Labyrinth.