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BOOK X.

"A dream!"—HOMER, I, 3.

CHAPTER I.

QUALIS ubi in lucem coluber
. . . Mala gramina pastus.*—VIRGIL.

Pars minima est ipsa puella sui.**—OVID.

* "As when a snake glides into light, having fed on pernicious pastures."