^{page 274 note 1} Mozley's footnote (pp. 80–81 of the Loeb edition of Valerius Flaccus) to the effect that Venus is seeking vengeance for Vulcan's detection of her intrigue with Mars is probably not correct. The question must be decided by Arg. 2. 98–102 contra Veneris stat frigida semper | ara loco, meritas postquam dea coniugis iras | horruit et tacitae Martem tenuere catenae. | quocirca struit ilia nefas Lemnoque merenti | exitium fwriale mouet. It is likely that the sentence beginning quocirca harks back to the principal thought that Venus' altar stands cold, while the temporal clauses merely mark the time when the neglect began and imply the reason for it.

^{page 274 note 2} So very allusive indeed that it must remain unintelligible until the explanation of the labores, crimen matrum, and meritum prius is read below. The first two, referring to the murder of the Lemnian men, take over 100 lines to unfold, while the last is explained summarily at 2. 92–93

^{page 275 note 1} Valerius follows the rarer tradition that equates Hypsipyle's father with the tyrant of the Tauric Chersonese (2. 301–2).

^{page 276 note 1} An incidental, and perhaps accidental, point of contact in this simile is that Daedalus o aviation what Jason wawas ts to navigation.

^{page 277 note 1} Their first night at sea later evokes what must be one of the finest descriptions in Latin epic (2. 38–47).