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[3] Aulide. Aulis was a town and harbour in Boeotia, over-against Chalcis, a city of Euboea.

Having mentioned, in a former note, the detention of the Grecian fleet in this port, and the intended sacrifice, we may here observe, that, when Iphigenia was conducted to the altar, Diana, out of compassion, put a hart in her place. The virgin was afterwards made her priestess. Hence our poet, speaking of the same event, says,

“Supposita fertur mulasse Mycaenida cerva.
”

So say Martial, Juvenal, and several other poets Yet Virgil and Propertius tell us that she was actually sacrificed.

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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