• Alcmaeon, who slew his mother Eriphyle to avenge his father Amphiaraüs the soothsayer. See note 749 . Ovid, Metamorphoses , IX :⁠— “The son shall bathe his hands in parent’s blood And in one act be both unjust and good.” ↩
• Beatrice, beloved of God; “that blessed Beatrice, who lives in heaven with the angels and on earth with my soul.” ↩
• Lessing, Theol. Schrift. , I 108:⁠— “If God held all Truth shut up in his right hand, and in his left only the ever restless instinct for Truth,⁠ ⁠… and said to me, Choose! I should humbly fall down at his left, and say, Father, give! Pure Truth is for Thee alone!” ↩