• Pope, Temple of Fame , 7:⁠— “What time the morn mysterious visions brings, While purer slumbers spread their golden wings.” ↩
  • Mount Ida. ↩
  • To the region of fire. Brunetto Latini, Tresor , Ch. CXIII , says:⁠— “After the environment of the air is seated the fourth element; this is an orb of fire, which extends to the moon and surrounds this atmosphere in which we are. And know that above the fire is in the first place the moon, and the other stars, which are all of the nature of fire.” ↩
  • To prevent Achilles from going to the siege of Troy, his mother Thetis took him from Chiron, the Centaur, and concealed him in female attire in the court of Lycomedes, king of Scyros. ↩
  • As Richter says:⁠— “The hour when sleep is nigh unto the soul.” ↩
  • Lucia, the Enlightening Grace of heaven. Inferno II 97. ↩
  • Nino and Conrad. ↩
  • Ovid uses a like expression:⁠— “Sleep and the god together went away.” ↩
  • The first stair is Confession; the second, Contrition; and the third, Penance. ↩
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