The attempt which Theseus and Pirithous made to rescue Proserpine from the infernal regions. ↩

The hidden doctrine seems to be, that Negation or Unbelief is the Gorgon’s head which changes the heart to stone; after which there is “no more returning upward.” The Furies display it from the walls of the City of Heretics. ↩

At Aries lie buried, according to old tradition, the Peers of Charlemagne and their ten thousand men at arms. Archbishop Turpin, in his famous History of Charles the Great , XXX , Rodd’s Translation, I , says:⁠—