• Statius begins the Thebaid with an invocation to Clio, the Muse of History, whose office it was to record the heroic actions of brave men, I 55:⁠— “What first, O Clio, shall adorn thy page, The expiring prophet, or Aetolian’s rage? Say, wilt thou sing how, grim with hostile blood, Hippomedon repelled the rushing flood, Lament the Arcadian youth’s untimely fate, Or Jove, opposed by Capaneus, relate?” Skelton, “Elegy on the Earl of Northumberland”:⁠— “Of hevenly poems, O Clyo calde by name In the college of musis goddess hystoriale.” ↩
• Saint Peter. ↩
• 70, Virgil’s Bucolics , Ecl. IV , 5, a passage supposed to foretell the birth of Christ:⁠— “The last era of Cumaean song is now arrived; the great series of ages begins anew; now the Virgin returns, returns the Saturnian reign; now a new progeny is sent down from the high heaven.” ↩
• The Fourth Circle of Purgatory, where Sloth is punished. Canto XVII 85:⁠— “The love of good, remiss In what it should have done, is here restored; Here plied again the ill-belated oar.” ↩