• “This word almost ,” says Buti, “gives us to understand that it was not the exact moment when the sun enters Aries.” ↩
• Milton, Paradise Lost , III 593:⁠— “Not all parts like, but all alike informed With radiant light, as glowing iron with fire.” ↩
• Milton, Paradise Lost , V 310:⁠— “Seems another morn Risen on mid-noon.” ↩
• Glaucus, changed to a sea-god by eating of the salt-meadow grass. Ovid, Metamorphoses , XIII , Rowe’s Tr. :⁠— “Restless I grew, and every place forsook, And still upon the seas I bent my look. Farewell forever! Farewell, land! I said; And plunged amidst the waves my sinking head. The gentle powers, who that low empire keep, Received me as a brother of the deep; To Tethys, and to Ocean old, they pray To purge my mortal earthy parts away.” “As Glaucus,” says Buti, “was changed from a fisherman to a sea-god by tasting of the grass that had that power, so the human soul, tasting of things divine, becomes divine.” ↩