• By the beneficent influences of the stars. ↩
• The Moon. Trivia is one of the surnames of Diana, given her because she presided over all the places where three roads met. Purg. XXXI 106:⁠— “We here are Nymphs, and in the Heaven are stars.” Iliad , VIII 550, Anon. Tr. :⁠— “As when in heaven the beauteous stars appear round the bright moon, when the air is breathless, and all the hills and lofty summits and forests are visible, and in the sky the boundless ether opens, and all the stars are seen, and the shepherd is delighted in his soul.” ↩
• Christ. ↩
• The old belief that the stars were fed by the light of the sun. Milton, Paradise Lost , VII 364:⁠— “Hither as to their fountain other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.” And Calderon, El Principe Constants , sonnet in Jor. II :⁠— “Those glimmerings of light, those scintillations, That by supernal influences draw Their nutriment in splendors from the sun.” ↩
• Beatrice speaks. ↩