Category: Poetry
[Footnote 794: Evie, Evoë!--Ver. 563. In the combat with the Giants, Jupiter is said, when one of them was slain by Bacchus, to have exclaimed 'Well done, son:' whence the exclamation 'Evie!' was said to have originated. See the Metamorchoses, Book iv. 1. 11 and 15, and the No...
[Footnote 932: As though a servant.--Ver. 228. He is to be ready, if his mistress goes to a party, to act the part of the slave, who was called 'adversitor,' whose duty it was t...
1. Book iii. 1. 742. He seems to have been always getting into trouble.[Footnote 794: Evie, Evoë!--Ver. 563. In the combat with the Giants, Jupiter is said, when one of them was slain by Bacchus, to have exclaimed 'Well done, son:' whence the excla...
5. Book ii. 1. 473, and the Note.[Footnote 1076: Let the smooth balls.--Ver. 361. He seems to allude here to a game played by putting marbles (which seems to be the meaning of 'pilæ leves,' 'smooth balls,') int...
4. Book ii. 1. 359: and 69.[Footnote 1068: Varro.--Ver. 335. See the Pontic Epistles, Book iv. Ep. xvi. 1. 21; and the Amores, Book i. El. xv. 1. 21, and the Notes to the passages.]
2. Book ii. 1.477. The second took place when the pieces were 'ligati,or 'ad incitas redacti,' brought upon the last line and unable to move. White and red are supposed to have been the colour of the men. This game was much played by the Roman lad...