• Manto, daughter of Tiresias, who fled from Thebes, the “City of Bacchus,” when it became subject to the tyranny of Cleon. ↩
• Lake Benacus is now called the Lago di Garda. It is pleasantly alluded to by Claudian in his “Old Man of Verona,” who has seen “the grove grow old coeval with himself.” “Verona seems To him remoter than the swarthy Ind; He deems the Lake Benacus as the shore Of the Red Sea.” ↩
• The Pennine Alps, or Alpes Poenae , watered by the brooklets flowing into the Sarca, which is the principal tributary of Benaco. ↩
• The place where the three dioceses of Trent, Brescia, and Verona meet. ↩
• At the outlet of the lake. ↩
• Aeneid , X :⁠— “Mincius crowned with sea-green reeds.” Milton, “Lycidas”:⁠— “Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds.” ↩
• Manto. Benvenuto da Imola says:⁠— “Virgin should here be rendered Virago.” ↩
• Aeneid , X :⁠— “Ocnus,⁠ ⁠… son of the prophetic Manto, and of the Tuscan river, who gave walls and the name of his mother to thee, O Mantua!” ↩