War and lying are banished together.
[122] The _genius_ is the local god, the god of the place as a place.
[123] The _Lars_ were the protecting spirits of the ancestors of the family; the _Lemures_ were evil spirits, spectres, or bad ghosts.

But the notions were somewhat indefinite.
[124] _Flamen_ was the word used for _priest_ when the Romans spoke of the priest of any particular divinity.

Hence the _peculiar power_ in the last line of the stanza.
[125] Jupiter Ammon, worshipped in Libya, in the north of Africa, under the form of a goat.

"He draws in his horn." [126] The Syrian Adonis.
[127] Frightful, horrible, as, _a grisly bear_.
[128] Isis, Orus, Anubis, and Osiris, all Egyptian divinities--the last worshipped in the form of a bull.
[129] No rain falls in Egypt.
[130] Last-born: the star in the east.
[131] Bright-armoured.
[132] Ready for what service may arise.
[133] The _with_ we should now omit, for when we use it we mean the opposite of what is meant here.
[134] It is the light of the soul going out from the eyes, as certainly as the light of the world coming in at the eyes that makes things seen.
[135] The action by which a body attacked collects force by opposition.
[136] Cut roughly through.
[137] Intransitively used.

They touch each other.
[138] Self-desire, which is death's pit, &c.
[139] _Which_ understood.
[140] How unpleasant conceit can become.