NOTES

(The dates given in the text with authors are generally those of floruit, i.e. about the fortieth year.)

[1.] Somewhere recently in a newspaper I saw these lines entitled, They Lived Too Soon:

I fear Cleopatra was wasted

Way back in her misty old realm.

As matters befell, she did fairly well

But she’d have been great in a film.

If Dido and Sappho were with us—

They’re advertised widely, you see—