(15) Probably the flute thrown away by Pallas, which Marsyas

picked up and then challenged Apollo to a musical contest.

For his presumption the god had him flayed alive.

(16) That is, the Little Bear, by which the Phoenicians steered,

while the Greeks steered by the Great Bear. (See Sir G.

Lewis's "Astronomy of the Ancients", p. 447.) In Book VI.,

line 193, the pilot declares that he steers by the pole star

itself, which is much nearer to the Little than to the Great

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