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NOTES.

Note 1, page 3, line 14.

Round Doric Pæstum's solitary fanes.

"The Pæstan rose, from its peculiar fragrance and the singularity of blowing twice a year, is often mentioned by the classic poets. The wild rose, which now shoots up among the ruins, is of the small single damask kind, with a very high perfume; as a farmer assured me on the spot, it flowers both in spring and autumn."—Swinburne's Travels in the two Sicilies.

Note 2, page 4, line 12.

Swelled o'er that tide—the sons of battle sleep.

In the naval engagements of the Greeks, "it was usual for the soldiers before the fight to sing a pæan, or hymn, to Mars, and after the fight another to Apollo."—See Potter's Antiquities of Greece, vol. ii. p. 155.

Note 3, page 6, line 12.

Her own bright East, thy son, Morea! flies.

The emigration of the natives of the Morea to different parts of Asia is thus mentioned by Chateaubriand in his "Itinéraire de Paris à Jerusalem"—"Parvenu au dernier degré du malheur, le Moraite s'arrache de son pays, et va chercher en Asie un sort

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