Hippolytus was the son of Theseus. His death was caused by the fury of a woman scorned,--his step-mother Phaedra, who, when repulsed, denounced him to his father. During his life he had been devoted to the service of Diana. --neque . . . liberat: this is the form of the myth in the Hippolytus of Euripides. In the legend followed by Vergil (Aen. 7.761 sqq.), Ovid (Met. 15.533 sqq.), and Browning (in Artemis Prologuizes), Diana restores him to life, and transfers him, under the name of Virbius, to her grove at Aricia.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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