[{8}] The Elzevir piracy was rather earlier.
[{9}] Pindar, perhaps, in one of his fragments, suggested that pretty Cum regnat Rosa.
[{10}] See next letter.
[{11}] Mr. Munro calls the stone “a black agate,” and does not mention its provenance. The engraving in his book does no justice to the portrait. There is another gem representing Lucretius in the Vatican: of old it belonged to Leo X. The two gems are in all respects similar. A seal with this head, or one very like it, belonged to Evelyn, the friend of Mr. Pepys.