• When he recalled and interpreted the forgotten dream of Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel 2:10:⁠— “The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter; therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth: and there is none other that can show it before the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” ↩
• Plato, Timaeus , Davis’s Tr. , says:⁠— “And after having thus framed the universe, he allotted to it souls equal in number to the stars, inserting each in each.⁠ ⁠… And he declared also, that after living well for the time appointed to him, each one should once more return to the habitation of his associate star, and spend a blessed and suitable existence.” ↩
• The word “thrust,” pontano , is here used in its architectural sense, as in Inferno XXXII 3. There it is literal, here figurative. ↩
• Che più s’ india , that most in-God’s himself. As in Canto IX 81, S’ io m’ intuassi come tu t’ immii, “if I could in-thee myself as thou dost in-me thyself”; and other expressions of a similar kind. ↩