XI. BACCHUS.

This piece is imitated from Ovid, _Met._ iv. II ff. It also contains reminiscences of Ovid, _De Arte Am._ i. 541; Catullus, lxiv. 225.

L. 1. _Thyonée_ Thyoneus, i.e. son of Thyone, another name of Semele.

L. 2. Dionysius, Evan, Iacchus, Lenaeus, names of Bacchus. The origin of the first three is obscure, while Lenaeus is from [Greek: lêmos], a wine-press.

L. 9. _étoilé._ The fur of the lynx is spotted.

L. 11. _aux axes de tes chars._ Lat. _axis_ (Fr. _axe_) is properly Fr. _essieu_ (from Lat. _axiculus_), Eng. _axle_ which has also been sometimes replaced by _axis_. (The O. E. word was _ax_ (_æx_), related to Lat. _axis_.) But here _axe_ is used, as in Latin, for _roue_, i.e. 'wheel.' See also note p. 65, XI, l. 2.

L. 17. _Et le rauque tambour._ _Et_ does duty for _ainsi que_.

L. 18. _Les hautbois tortueux_--'tibia curva' Tibul, ii. I. 86.--_les doubles crotales_:, crotals, or crotala, are a sort of castanets. They are called _doubles_ because they consisted of _two_ little brass plates, or rods.