Page 94. To C. Aders, Esq.
First printed in Hone's Year Book (March 19), 1831 (see note to "Angel
Help," above).
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Page 95. Hercules Pacificatus.
First printed in the Englishman's Magazine, August, 1831. Suidas is supposed to have lived in the tenth or eleventh century, and to have compiled a Lexicon—a blend of biographical dictionary.
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Page 98. The Parting Speech of the Celestial Messenger to the Poet.
First printed in The Athenaeum, February 25, 1832.
Palingenius was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century, whose real name was Pietro Angelo Mazolli, but who wrote in Latin under the name of Marcellus Palingenius Stollatus. His Zodiacus Vitae, a philosophical poem, was published in 1536.
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