[104] Phryxeae. So called from Phryxus, the son of Athamas and Nephele. He with his sister Helle, flying from the cruelty of his step-mother, came to the Hellespont, and ventured to swim over it on the ram which had the golden fleece. Helle was drowned; whence these streights took the name of Hellespont, that is, Pontus Helles, the sea of Helle. He himself arrived safely in Colchis; sacrificed the ram to Mars; and hung up his spoil in the temple, where it continued till Jason fetched it back into Greece.
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P. Ovidius Naso. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the very best commentators both ancient and modern; beside a very great number of notes entirely new. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
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