• Tombs under the pavement in the aisles of churches, in contradistinction to those built aloft against the walls. ↩
• The reader will not fail to mark the artistic structure of the passage from this to the sixty-third line. First there are four stanzas beginning, “I saw”; then four beginning, “O”; then four beginning, “Displayed”; and then a stanza which resumes and unites them all. ↩
• Luke 10:18:⁠— “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.” Milton, Paradise Lost , I 44:⁠— “Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.” ↩
• Iliad , I 403:⁠— “Him of the hundred hands, whom the gods call Briareus, and all men Aegaeon.” note 472 . He was struck by the thunderbolt of Jove, or by a shaft of Apollo, at the battle of Flegra. “Ugly medley of sacred and profane, of revealed truth and fiction!” exclaims Venturi. ↩
• Thymbraeus, a surname of Apollo, from his temple in Thymbra. ↩