Note 10 — BOOK V.
Reading edition
—Page 280, stanza lii.
On the Fork'd Hill), abjures his genial smile.
Tinia, the Etrurian Bacchus (son of Tina), identified symbolically with the god of the infernal regions. In the funeral monuments he sometimes assumes the most fearful aspect. The above description of the Etrurian Hades, with its eight gates, is taken in each detail from vases and funeral monuments, most of which are cited by Micali.