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marshes of Greece are replete with rose-laurels, while the springs and rivulets are covered with lilies, tuberoses, hyacinths, and narcissus orientalis."—Pouqueville's Travels in the Morea.
Note 27, page 31, line 5.
The suppliant's hand its holy branches bore.
It was usual for suppliants to carry an olive-branch bound with wool.
Note 28, page 31, line 10.
Its fruitful groves arise, revered and hallowed still.
The olive, according to Pouqueville, is still regarded with veneration by the people of the Morea.
Note 29, page 31, line 15.
Quenched is the torch of Ceres—all around.
It was customary at Eleusis, on the fifth day of the festival, for men and women to run about with torches in their hands, and also to dedicate torches to Ceres, and to contend who should present the largest. This was done in memory of the journey of Ceres in search of Proserpine, during which she was lighted by a torch kindled in the flames of Etna—Potter's Antiquities of Greece, vol.i. p. 392.
Note 30, page 33, line 17.
Fount of Oblivion! in thy gushing wave.
The Fountains of Oblivion and Memory, with the Hercynian fountain, are still to be seen amongst the rocks near Livadia, though the situation of the cave of Trophonius in their vicinity cannot be exactly ascertained.—See Holland's Travels.