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Homeric Epigrammata, xiii. 5. Quoted also in "On Virtue and Vice," § I.

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Odyssey, xix. 40.

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I adopt the suggestion of Wyttenbach, εἶπεν ῶ Δαφναῖε.

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Pinder, "Pyth." i. 8.

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See for example Homer, "Iliad," xi. 3, 73; ix. 502.

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Euripides, "Pirithous," Fragm. 591. Dindorf.

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An allusion to Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 453.

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So Terence, "Andria," 555. "Amantium iræ amoris integratiost."

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The lines are from Alcæus. Thus Love was the child of the Rainbow and the West Wind. A pretty conceit.

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Greek iris.

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The mirrors of the ancients were of course not like our mirrors. They were only burnished bronze. Hence the view in them would be at best somewhat obscure. This explains 1 Cor. xiii. 12; 2 Cor. iii. 18; James i. 23.

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