Continuo sontes, Ultrix accincta flagello
Tysiphone quatit insultans, &c.
Yet afterwards she is on Earth in the Tenth Æneid, and amidst the Battel, Pallida Tisiphone media inter Millia sævit. Which I guess to be Tysiphone, the rather, by the Etimology of her Name; which is compounded of Τίω, ulciscor; and φονιε cædes. Part of her Errand being to affright Turnus, with the Stings of a guilty Conscience; and denounce Vengeance against him for breaking the first Treaty, by refusing to yield Lavinia to Æneas, to whom she was promis'd by her Father, and consequently, for being the Author of an unjust War; and also for violating the second Treaty, by declining the single combat, which he had stipulated with his Rival, and call'd the Gods to witness before their Altars. As for the Names of the Harpies, (so call'd on Earth) Hesiod tells us they were Iris, Aello, and Ocypete. Virgil calls one of them Celæno: This I doubt not was Alecto; whom Virgil calls in the third Æneid, Furiarum maxima: And in the sixth again, by the same NameFuriarum maxima, juxta accubat. That she was the chief of the Furies, appears by her description in the seventh Æneid: To which, for haste, I refer the Reader.
FINIS.
