To Leonard Philaras. (Familiar Letters, No. XV.)

P. 89. Phineus: see note on ‘P. L.,’ iii. 36, in this volume.

P. 89. Salmydessus: a town of Thrace, on the coast of the Black Sea.

P. 89. Argonautica: a heroic poem on the Argonautic expedition, by Apollonius Rhodius.

P. 89. κάρος δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψεν:

‘A darkling maze now round about him drew,
The earth from underneath seemed whirling fast,
In languid trance he lay bereft of speech.’

Prof. Charles E. Bennett’s translation.

P. 90. the Wise Man: Ecclesiastes xi. 8.

P. 90. Lynceus: the keen-sighted Argonaut.