[Footnote 1: At the top of this paper in a 12mo copy of the _Spectator_, published in 17l2, and annotated by a contemporary Spanish merchant, is written, 'The character of Dr Swift.' This proves that the writer of the note had an ill opinion of Dr Swift and a weak sense of the purport of what he read. Swift, of course, understood what he read. At this time he was fretting under the sense of a chill in friendship between himself and Addison, but was enjoying his _Spectators_. A week before this date, on the 16th of March, he wrote, 'Have you seen the 'Spectators' yet, a paper that comes out every day? It is written by Mr. Steele, who seems to have gathered new life and have a new fund of wit; it is in the same nature as his 'Tatlers', and they have all of them had something pretty. I believe Addison and he club.' Then he adds a complaint of the chill in their friendship. A month after the date of this paper Swift wrote in his journal, 'The 'Spectator' is written by Steele with Addison's help; 'tis often very pretty.' Later in the year, in June and September, he records dinner and supper with his friends of old time, and says of Addison, 'I yet know no man half so agreeable to me as he is.'] [Footnote 2: 'Plato's Phaedon', § 40. The ridicule of Socrates in 'The Clouds' of Aristophanes includes the accusation that he displaced Zeus and put in his place Dinos,--Rotation. When Socrates, at the point of death, assents to the request that he should show grounds for his faith 'that when the man is dead, the soul exists and retains thought and power,' Plato represents him as suggesting: Not the sharpest censor 'could say that in now discussing such matters, I am dealing with what does not concern me.'] [Footnote 3: The bitter attack upon Cæsar and his parasite Mamurra was notwithdrawn, but remains to us as No. 29 of the Poems of Catullus. The doubtful authority for Cæsar's answer to it is the statement in the Life of Julius Cæsar by Suetonius that, on the day of its appearance, Catullus apologized and was invited to supper; Cæsar abiding also by his old familiar friendship with the poet's father. This is the attack said to be referred to in one of Cicero's letters to Atticus (the last of Bk. XIII.), in which he tells how Cæsar was 'after the eighth hour in the bath; then he heard _De Mamurrâ_; did not change countenance; was anointed; lay down; took an emetic.'] [Footnote 4: Claude Quillet published a Latin poem in four books, entitled '_Callipædia_, seu de pulchræ prolis habendâ ratione,' at Leyden, under the name of Calvidius Lætus, in 1655. In discussing unions harmonious and inharmonious he digressed into an invective against marriages of Powers, when not in accordance with certain conditions; and complained that France entered into such unions prolific only of ill, witness her gift of sovereign power to a Sicilian stranger. 'Trinacriis devectus ab oris advena.'