Lucian, of Samosata -- Translations into English; Voyages, Imaginary
{183d} A goddess worshipped in Thrace. Hesychius says this was only
another name for Diana. See Strabo.
{184} Alluding to his Republic, which probably was considered by
Lucian and others as a kind of Utopian system.
{185a} See Homer's "Iliad," book xvi. 1. 250.
{185b} Of Elis, founder of the Sceptic sect, who doubted of
everything. He flourished about the hundred and tenth Olympiad.
{187a} [Greek]
"--Not the bread of man their life sustains,
Nor wine's inflaming juice supplies their veins."
See Pope's Homer's "Iliad," book v. 1. 425.
{187b} Greek, [Greek].
{187c} See the beginning of the second book of the "Iliad."
{188a} Apollo is always represented as imberbis, or without a beard,
probably from a notion that Phoebus, or the sun, must be always
young.
{188b} See Homer's "Iliad," book xviii. 1. 134.
{189} See Homer's "Iliad," book ii. 1. 238.
{190} Greek, [Greek], what Virgil calls, ignavum pecus.
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