_the 'good' of Plato._ The reference is probably to the identification of [Greek: to agathon] with the [Greek: demiourgos] the creator spoken of in the Timaeus. CHAPTER 30. _Vergil._ Cp. Ecl. viii. 64-82. Aen. iv. 513-16. _the wondrous talisman._ The allusion is to the _hippomanes_ or growth said to be found on the forehead of a new-born foal. Unless the mother was prevented she devoured it. _Theocritus_, sc. Id. ii. _Homer_, e.g. the adventures with Circe. _Orpheus._ See the Orphica (Abel), _Fr._ 172; Argonaut. 955 sqq. Lithica 172 sqq. _Laevius._ The MSS. give Laelius. But no poet Laelius is known. There was, however, a poet _Laevius_ at the beginning of the first century B.C. _the lover's knot._ The Latin is _antipathes_, explained by Abt (Apologie des Apuleius, p. 103) as _quod mutuum affectum provocat_. _the magic wheel_ spun rapidly to draw the beloved to the lover. Cp. Theocr. ii. 30. 'And as this brazen wheel spins, so may Delphis be spun by Aphrodite to my door.' _nails._ Portions of the beloved were valuable ingredients in charms. Cp. Apul. Metamorph. bk. iii, 16, 17, where hair from the beloved's head is required. _ribbons_ used as fillets during the ritual. Cp. chap. 30, 'soft garlands.' _the two-tailed lizard._ Theocr. ii. 57, testifies to the use of the lizard as a love charm. A magic papyrus from Egypt (Griffiths Thompson, col. xiii (23), p. 97) mentions a two-tailed lizard as an ingredient in a charm to cause death. _the charm that glads_, &c., sc. _hippomanes_; see note on preceding page. CHAPTER 31. _Homer._ Iliad xi. 741. Odyssey iv. 229. _Proteus._ Odyssey iv. 364. _Ulysses._ Odyssey xi. 25. _Aeolus._ Odyssey x. 19. _Helen._ Odyssey iv. 59. _Circe._ Odyssey x. 234. _Venus._ Iliad xiv. 214. _Mercury._ Cp. the magic hymn contained in a magical papyrus (Papyr. Lond. 46. 414). 'Thou art told of as foreknower of the fates and as the godlike dream sending oracles both by day and night.' _Trivia_ = Hecate. _Salacia_, a Roman sea-goddess, the wife of Neptune. _Portumnus_, the Roman harbour-god. CHAPTER 32. _Menelaus._ Hom. Odyss. iv. 368. CHAPTER 35. _A shell for the making of a will._ The pun _testa ad testamentum_ cannot be reproduced in English. _seaweed for an ague._ Here again there is an untranslatable jest. _Alga_ (seaweed) suggests _algere_, 'to be cold,' one of the symptoms of the ague (_querceram_). CHAPTER 36. _Theophrastus_ of Eresus, the favourite pupil of Aristotle. _Eudemus_ of Rhodes, also a disciple of Aristotle. _Lycon_ of Troas, a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher (floruit circa 272 B.C.). CHAPTER 39. _Quintus Ennius_, 239-169 B.C. The lines which follow are all that survive of the Hedyphagetica. They seem to be closely imitated from the Gastronomia of Archestratus quoted by Athenaeus iii, pp. 92. 300. 318. There is great uncertainty as to the text, and but few of the fish mentioned can be identified with any certainty. CHAPTER 40. _Homer._ Odyssey xix. 456.