Odyssey, xix. 40.

I adopt the suggestion of Wyttenbach, εἶπεν ῶ Δαφναῖε.

Pinder, "Pyth." i. 8.

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

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

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

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

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

Greek iris.

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.