Note 124 — BOOK II.
William Julius Mickle translation
Doto, Nyse, and Nerine.—Cloto, or Clotho, as Castera observes, has by some error crept into almost all the Portuguese editions of the Lusiad. Clotho was one of the Fates, and neither Hesiod, Homer, nor Virgil has given such a name to any of the Nereids; but in the ninth Æneid Doto is mentioned—
——magnique jubebo Æquoris esse Deas, qualis Nereïa Doto Et Galatea secant spumantem pectore pontum.
The Nereids, in the Lusiad, says Castera, are the virtues divine and human. In the first book they accompany the Portuguese fleet—
——before the bounding prows The lovely forms of sea-born nymphs arose.