497-502. Cf. P. L. 11 : 714-718. Was Milton thinking of any
contemporaries ?

502. Flown. The participle oifly, confused with that otflow, as
occasionally in Spenser and Shakespeare. The word here seems to
mean 'debauched/ like the Lat. fluens; cf. Liv. VII. xxix. 5,
'Campani jiuentes luxu.' For such a use of the past participle in
the sense of the present, cf. 'fair-spoken,' Shak., Hen. VIII. IV. ii.
52; 'moulten,' 1 Hen. IV. III. i. 152; and ' forgotten ' = forgetful,
Ant. I. iii. 91; Abbott, Shak. Gram., § 374.
503. Sodom. Gen. 19 : 4-8.
504. Gibeah. Judges 19 : 16-25. The hospitable doors. The
first edition has hospitable doors.
505. Exposed a matron. The first edition has yielded their
matrons.
506. Prime. Chief.
508. Ionian. This word is etymologically akin to Javan, and the
Ionians were descended from Javan. Ja van's. Gen. 10 : 2. Held.
Accounted, considered.
510. Titan. Meaning Oceanus. So in Hesiod, Theog. 133.
511. Brood. The Oceanids, Hes., Theog. 337 ff.
512. Saturn. Bather, Cronos. See Hes., Theog. 168 ff..
513. Son. Hes., Theog. 453 ff.
514. Crete. Hes., Theog. 477 ff.
515. Ida. In Crete ; see Pausanias V. vii. 6. Thence. Ceaving
that place. Snowy. So II. 1 : 420 ; 18 : 615.
517. Delphian cliff. Parnassus. So called by Sophocles, 0. T.
463 ; cf. Od. Nat. 178.
518. Dodona. Odys. 14 : 327 : ' He had gone, he said, to Dodona,
to hear the counsel of Zeus from the high leafy oak tree of the god.'



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519. Saturn. JEn. 8 : 319-326. But Saturn is not there repre-
sented as having companions.
520. Adria. The Adriatic Sea. Hesperian. Italian, or, per-
haps, Italian and Spanish.
