This astrological allusion makes it clear that the reference is to the supposed "planetary influence," and to the movements of these bodies--controlled by the gods--with which the fate of mortals was believed to be upbound. For an account of the Gods of the Five Planets, see _Chaldean Magic_, by François Lenormant, pp. 26 and 118.--ED.] [Footnote FG: Compare _Lycidas_, 1. 154-- Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas, and note that Charles Lamb, who was familiar with _The Excursion_, quotes the above line ("Distant Correspondents") thus-- Aye me! while thee the seas and sounding shores. ED. ] [Footnote FH: The strolling Greek minstrels from Homer onwards, predecessors of the Troubadours.--ED.] [Footnote FI: The reference is doubtless to Pausanias, i. 37, 3. "Before you cross the Cephisus, there is the monument of Theodorus, who excelled all his contemporaries as an actor in tragedy; and near to the river, there are [two] statues, one of Mnesimache, another of her son, in the act of cutting off his hair [over the stream and presenting it] as a votive offering to the Cephisus." See Note D in the Appendix to this volume, p. 396.--ED.] [Footnote FJ: Compare _King Henry VI._, Part III. act ii. scene v. ll. 23-35-- To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run. ED. ] [Footnote FK: Apollo.--ED.] [Footnote FL: Diana.--ED.] [Footnote FM: The ναἴάδες (water-nymphs) and ὁρειάδες (mountain-nymphs), with others of the meadows woods and dales, sprung from the fertile imagination of the Greeks. Wordsworth's explanation of the origin of these myths from natural causes is not peculiar to him, although his lines are a _locus classicus_ on the subject; but his explanation of the "lurking Satyrs," as due to the sight of the horns of the deer, or the goats, in the woods, is probably his own.--ED.] [Footnote FN: St. Fillan. There were two Scottish saints of that name. The first, and most famous, the particulars of whose life are recorded in the Breviary of Aberdeen, Felanus, or Fœlanus, Fælan, Fillanus, Filane, or Phillane, the son of Kentigern. In Perthshire, the scene of his labours, a river and a strath are called after him, and a Church dedicated to him. He was associated with the battle of Bannockburn. (See _Kalendars of Scottish Saints_, by A. P. Forbes, Bishop of Brechin.)--ED.]