Iliad ii. 212-264: but Thersites does not make any such boast as that in the text.
P. 39, l. 19. Scaliger, Joseph Justus (1540-1609), the younger of the two great classical scholars of that name.
P. 40, l. 1. thy study of humanity. The word humanity is here used to mean classical literature.
P. 40, l. 13. With him . . . he took . . . Wotton, refers to the fact that Bentley's first Dissertation appeared in the second edition of Wotton's Refections, see pp. xxvii.-ix. of this vol.
P. 40, l. 19. Aldrovandus's tomb. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) was an Italian naturalist who wrote an immense work on natural history. The tomb is, presumably, the book on which he spent his life and eyesight.
P. 41, l. 1. As when two mongrel curs, &c., a parody of the Epic style.
P. 41, l. 6. the conscious moon. The word conscious is used of inanimate things as though they were privy to, or witnesses of, human actions or secrets. (N.E.D.) Cf. Aen. iv. 519 and Denham's Coopers Hill.
p. 41, l. 22. Phalaris and Æsop, see pp. xxvii.-ix. of Introduction.
P. 42, l. 6. For Phalaris was . . . dreaming. 'This is according to Homer, who tells the dreams of those who were killed in their sleep.' (Note in 5th Edn.)
P. 42, l. 10. A wild ass broke loose. Boyle complained that Bentley had called him an ass (cf. Boyle's Examination, pp. 219. 220, and the note to p. 197, l. 3, below).
