[59] It has been held that this refers to the "flying dragon" experimented with by Buratini at Warsaw in 1648. The evidence that Cyrano himself had visited Poland is very flimsy.
[60] See Appendix I, for a brief account of Tom d'Urfey's opera derived from this part of Cyrano's Voyages.
[61] Apollonius of Tyana (1st cent. A.D.), Greek neo-Pythagorean. Anaximander (611-547 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Æsop (620-560 B.C.), Greek fabulist.
[62] There has perhaps been a censor at work here.
[63] "The Abbé de Saint-Yves supposed that a man who was not born in France possessed no common sense." Voltaire, L'Ingénu.
[64] This would be "savage satire" in Swift; in Cyrano it is merely "madness".
[65] Even the Yahoos beat this only in nastiness, not in scorn.
[66] "Pain du Roy", i.e. prisoner's rations.
[67] "Guillots"; I went to five dictionaries, before finding this (dubious) meaning.
[68] To the best of my knowledge this admirable indictment is Cyrano's own.