place
Ganges
The great river of India ('Gangetic'); a tigress robbed of her cubs ranges its woods.
Reading notes
- Hercules on Oeta §599 the whole Ganges
The Ganges of India, the great river of the far East.
- Medea §862 the Gangetic wood
The forests of India by the Ganges, where a tigress robbed of her cubs is imagined ranging --- the simile for Medea.
- Oedipus §416 Ganges
The great river of India, marking Bacchus's eastern conquests.