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Rh poisoned by the shirt of Nessus, he ascended a pile of wood and ordered it to be set on fire.

49, 6. Jonithus; according to Methodius, a fourth son of Noah, who was supposed to have invented astronomy.

49, 8. his brother Zoroaster; cp. Gervase Tilbury, Otia Imper. i. 20. "Zoroaster alio nomine Cham filius Noæ vocabatur."

49, 9. Enoch; cp. Ecclus. xliv. 16.

49, 13. caught up in an ecstasy, cp. 2 Cor. xii. 4.

49, 16. the book of the Perfect Word; "liber Logostilios"; the reference is to the lost treatise of the quasi-mythical Hermes Trismegistus, extant only in the Latin translation of Apuleius, which was entitled or, as St. Augustine renders it, Verbum Perfectum.

49, 17. the older Athens, cp. the Timæus and Crito of Plato, for the account of the Egyptian Athens supposed to be given to Solon by a priest of Sais.

50, 5. Nay, Aristotle would not have missed, etc.; "Numquid Aristotelem de circuli quadratura syllogismus apodicticon latuisset."

51, 2. like sheep, cp. Ezek. xxxiv. 5.

51, 5. the gates of death; Ps. cvii. 18.

51, 8. that translation of books; the story is taken from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Attica, vi. 17.

51, 11. O glad and joyful return; "O postliminium gratiosum."

52, 3. the Gades; i.e. limit. Originally a Punic word meaning boundary, in which sense the place-name was used in mediæval Latin.

52, 5. the ruler of Olympus, "rector Olympi"; Ovid. Met ix. 498.

54, 22. Aumbries, "armaria"; "armarium" was a monastic term for a book-chest, hence also 'a library'; and the librarian was called "armarius" ("The Care of Books" by Mrs. J. W. Clark).