• Deidamia was a daughter of Lycomedes of Scyros, at whose court Ulysses found Achilles, disguised in woman’s attire, and enticed him away to the siege of Troy, telling him that, according to the oracle, the city could not be taken without him, but not telling him that, according to the same oracle, he would lose his life there. ↩
• Ulysses and Diomed together stole the Palladium, or statue of Pallas, at Troy, the safeguard and protection of the city. ↩
• The Greeks scorned all other nations as “outside barbarians.” Even Virgil, a Latian, has to plead with Ulysses the merit of having praised him in the Aeneid. ↩
• The Pillars of Hercules at the straits of Gibraltar; Abyla on the African shore, and Gibraltar on the Spanish; in which the popular mind has lost its faith, except as symbolized in the columns on the Spanish dollar, with the legend, Plus ultra . Brunetto Latini, Tesoretto IX 119:⁠— “Appresso questo mare, Vidi diritto stare Gran colonne, le quali Vi mise per segnali Ercules il potente, Per mostrare alia gente Che loco sia finata La terra e terminata.” ↩
• Odyssey , XI 155:⁠— “Well-fitted oars, which are also wings to ships.” ↩