• The Naiades having undertaken to solve the enigmas of oracles, Themis, offended, sent forth a wild beast to ravage the flocks and fields of the Thebans; though why they should have been held accountable for the doings of the Naiades is not very obvious. The tradition is founded on a passage in Ovid, Metamorphoses , VII 757:⁠— “Carmina Naïades non intellecta priorum Solvunt.” Heinsius and other critics say that the lines should read, “Carmina Laiades non intellecta priorum Solverat”; referring to Oedipus, son of Laius. But Rosa Moranda maintains the old reading, and says there is authority in Pausanias for making the Naiades interpreters of oracles. ↩
• Coplas de Manrique :⁠— “Our cradle is the starting place, Life is the running of the race.” ↩
• First by the Eagle, who rent its bark and leaves; then by the giant, who bore away the chariot which had been bound to it. ↩
• The sin of Adam, and the death of Christ. ↩
• Widening at the top, instead of diminishing upward like other trees. ↩