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—