• Simonides, the poet of Cos, who won a poetic prize at the age of eighty, and is said to be the first poet who wrote for money. Agatho was an Athenian dramatist, of whom nothing remains but the name and a few passages quoted in other writers. ↩
• Some of the people that Statius introduces into his poems. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus; Deiphile, wife of Tideus; Argìa, her sister, wife of Polynices; Ismene, another daughter of Oedipus, who is here represented as still lamenting the death of Atys, her betrothed. ↩
• Hypsipile, who pointed out to Adrastus the fountain of Langìa, when his soldiers were perishing with thirst on their march against Thebes. ↩
• Of the three daughters of Tiresias only Manto is mentioned by Statius in the Thebaid . But Dante places Manto among the Soothsayers, Inferno XX 55, and not in Limbo. Had he forgotten this? ↩
• Thetis, the mother of Achilles, and Deidamia, the daughter of Lycomedes. They are among the personages in the Achilleid of Statius. ↩
• Four hours of the day were already passed. ↩