"Chariclea motioned her consent, as though not displeased at the proposal--and we then took our leave; Charicles putting me in mind of what he had first recommended to my anxious care; beseeching me, if possible, to inspire his daughter with an inclination for love and marriage. I sent him away in good spirits: assuring him that I would shortly bring about what he seemed to have so much at heart." [Footnote 1: Σιμοὶ.] [Footnote 2: Tὰν θέτιν ἀείδω, χρυσοἐθεφα θέτι, Νηρέως ἀθανάταν εἰvaλίoιo Κόραν, Τὰν Διός ἐννεσίη Πήλεϊ γημαμέναν; Τὰν ἁλός ἀγλαίαν, ἀμετὲραν Παφίην· Ή τὸν δουριμανή τόν τ'"Αρεα πτολέμων, Έλλάδος ἀστερoπαν ἐζέτεκεν λαγόνων Δῖον Άχιλλῆα, τοῦ κλέος οὐράνιον Τῷ ὑπὸ Πύῤῥα τέκεν πᾶιδα Νεοπτόλεμον Περσέπολιν Τρώων, ῥυσίπολιν Δαναῶν· Ιλήκοις ἤρως ἄμμι Nεοπτόλεμε, Ὅλζίε Πνθιάδι νῦν χθονὶ κευθόμενε. Αέχνυσο δ'εὐμενέων τῶνδε θυηπολίην' Πᾶν δ' ἀπέρυκε δέος άμετέρας πόλιός. Tὰν θέτιν ἀείδω, χρυσοέθειρα θέτι. ] [Footnote 3: "To brisk notes in cadence beating, Glance their many-twinkling feet."--Gray. ] [Footnote 4: "Armed he rode, all save the head; . . . . . . He ruled his eager courser's gait; Forced him with chastened fire to prance, And, high curvetting, slow advance." Lay of the Last Minstrel, iv. 18. ] [Footnote 5: The ancients were very exact in performing their devotions to the gods of the night, before they went to bed, or when they broke up an entertainment. Mercury was one of the principal of these deities. Homer takes notice of this custom: "The chiefs he found and senators within Libation pouring to the vigilant spy Mercurius, whom with wine they worshipp'd last Of all the gods, and at the hour of rest." Od. vii. 136.--Cowper. ] [Footnote 6: Όλόλυξαν μὲν aἱ γυνᾶικες, ἠλάλαξαν δὲ οἱ ἄνδρες.] [Footnote 7: "It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind." Lay of the Last Minstrel, v. 14. ] [Footnote 8: This incident forms the subject of a painting by Raphael.] [Footnote 9: "... micat inter omnea ... velut inter ignes---- Luna minorea."--Hor. I. Od. xii. 47. ] [Footnote 10: Τοὺς ὀφθαλμους Ἓρωτι διαβρόχους. "Et dulcis pueri _ebrios_ ocellos Illo purpureo ore suaviata."--Catullus, c. 42. ] [Footnote 11: "Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos."--Virg. Ec. iii. Theocritus (Id. v. 39,) alludes to the method of averting fascination: "Ώς μὴ βασκανθῶ δὲ, τρὶς εἰς ἐμὸν ἓπτυσα κόλπον." ] [Footnote 12: A passage illustrative of this occurs in Achilles Tatius, B. i. 4: Κάλλος ὀξύτερον τιτρώσκει βέλους, καὶ δια τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν εἰς τὴν ψυχην καταῤῥεῖ ὀφθαλμὸς yὰρ ἐδoς ἐρωτικῷ τράυμάτι.] [Footnote 13: Supposed to be the lapwing or curlew.] [Footnote 14: Tὴν ἀπὸ ξύλου κλῆσιν ἥκει φέρων.]