Well, the old man would have put you in mind of just such a wave-tost spar.” The three bodies and three heads, which old poetic fable has given to the monster Geryon, are interpreted by modern prose as meaning the three Balearic Islands, Majorca, Minorca, and Ivica, over which he reigned. ↩

• Ariosto, Orlando Furioso , XIV 87, Rose’s Tr. , thus depicts Fraud:⁠— “With pleasing mien, grave walk, and decent vest, Fraud rolled her eyeballs humbly in her head; And such benign and modest speech possest, She might a Gabriel seem who Ave said. Foul was she and deformed in all the rest; But with a mantle, long and widely spread, Concealed her hideous parts; and evermore Beneath the stole a poisoned dagger wore.” The Gabriel saying Ave is from Dante, Purgatory , X 40:⁠— “One would have sworn that he was saying Ave .” ↩