FOOTNOTES:
[1] The reference is to Marcellus, nephew and son-in-law of Augustus, and his destined heir. He died at the early age of eighteen.
[2] The Romans called him Mercury, and the Greeks Hermes.
[3] Tennyson, "The Sea Fairies."
[4] Tennyson, "The Lotos-Eaters."
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