2. The repetition of this word from the lovely lyric, _Ille mi par esse_, where it occurs in the same place of the verse, is a stroke of subtle and daring art. 3. The subject was a quite usual one among the Alexandrian poets whom Catullus read and imitated. Cf. _Anthologia Palatina_, vi. 51, 217-220. 4. _Confess_., III. iv. 5. _Historia scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum:_ Inst. Or., X. i. 31. 6. _Confess._, I. xiii. 7. _Supra,_ p. 68. 8. _Supra,_ p. 48. 9. These are the two parts of what the MSS. and the older editions give as Book ii. The division was made, on somewhat inconclusive grounds, by Lachmann. 10. It is one of these which opens with the two sonorous lines-- _Aesopi statuam ingentem posuere Attici Servumque aeterna collocarunt in basi_, which so powerfully affected the imagination of De Quincey. 11. In the poem as it has come down to us the refrain comes in at irregular intervals; but the most plausible reconstitution of a somewhat corrupt and disordered text makes it recur after every fourth line, thus making up the twenty-two stanzas mentioned in the title.