◆Shiraz, a town of Persia, capital of the Province of Fars, famous for its roses, wine and nightingales, sung by the Persian poets Hafiz and Saadi. ◆Plutarch, _Alexander_, Chap. XXXIX. ◆It is in his_ Observations de plusieurs singularités_ (Paris, 1554) that Belon reports this fact. (Liv. III., chap. x., p. 179.) [139] P. 261: ◆The usual form is Ortiagon. The woman is the beautiful Queen Chiomara. (Cf. Livy, XXXVIII., cap. xxiv., and Boccaccio, _De claris mulieribus_, LXXIV.) Chiomara, wife of Ortiagon, King of Galatia, was taken prisoner by the Romans when Cn. Manlius Vulso invaded Galatia, B. C. 189. The story is told by Polybius (XXII., 21). [140] P. 262: ◆Suetonius, _Cæsar_, LII. [141] P. 263: ◆Livy, XXX., cap. xv. ◆Plutarch, _Cato the Elder_. Brantôme attributes the anecdote to Scipion. [142] P. 265: ◆Charles de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise, known as Cardinal de Lorraine, died in 1574. He played an important rôle at the Council of Trente. Brantôme refers to the truce of Vaucelles between Henri II. and the Emperor, which Cardinal Caraffa had succeeded in breaking in 1556. This passage had evidently been written before 1588, the year of the death of another Cardinal de Guise, the brother of Balafré. ◆The beautiful Venitians are described by Vecellio as wearing exquisite gowns on holidays. (See Vecellio, _Habiti antichi_, Venice, 1590.) [143] P. 266: ◆This passage is not in the _Dies geniales_ by Alessandro, but in Herodotus, II., chap. ix. [144] P. 267: ◆What Brantôme says of Flora is not true. The woman in question was not called Flora, but Acca Taruntia. [145] P. 269: ◆Pausanius, Suetonius, and Manilius have not written special works on women. Brantôme is no doubt referring to the anecdotes that are found in their works. [146] P. 273: ◆This princess was Catherine de’Medeci. [147] P. 275: ◆The same story has been told of Mademoiselle, cousin german of Louis XIV., with this addition that she was in the habit of giving any of her pages who were tempted by her charms a few louis to enable them to satisfy their passion elsewhere. [148] P. 276: ◆Suetonius, _Vitellius_, cap. ii.: “Messalina petit ut sibi pedes præberet excalceandos.” Brantôme prefers to quote in his own manner. ◆LVIIth Tale. ◆Undoubtedly the grand prior François de Lorraine, who accompanied Mary Stuart to Scotland; however, D’Aumale and René d’Elbeuf also accompanied her. [149] P. 281: ◆Philip II., of Spain, son of Charles the Fifth, born 1527; died 1588. The husband of Queen Mary of England. [150] P. 282: