• Thaïs, the famous courtesan of Athens. Terence, The Eunuch , Act III Sc. 1:⁠— Thraso Did Thaïs really return me many thanks? Gnatho Exceeding thanks. Thraso Was she delighted, say you? Gnatho Not so much, indeed, at the present itself, as because it was given by you; really, in right earnest, she does exult at that. ↩
• “The filthiness of some passages,” exclaims Landor, Pentameron , p. 15, “would disgrace the drunkenest horse-dealer; and the names of such criminals are recorded by the poet, as would be forgotten by the hangman in six months.” ↩