[Footnote 15: These characters are found as follows: Viola in Twelfth
Night; Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Portia in The
Merchant of Venice; and Rosalind in As You Like It.]
[Footnote 16: Referring to the well-known catalogue of ships in the
Second Book of the Illiad:—
"My song to fame shall give
The chieftains, and enumerate their ships."
It is in this passage in particular that Homer is supposed to nod.]
[Footnote 17: It will be recalled that Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy,
persuaded Helen, the fairest of women and wife of King Menelaus of
Greece, to elope with him to Troy. This incident gave rise to the famous
Trojan War.]
[Footnote 18: Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was an Athenian philosopher, of whom Cicero said that he "brought down philosophy from the heavens to the earth." His teachings are preserved in Xenophon's Memorabilia and Plato's Dialogues.]
[Footnote 19: That is to say, his needless austerity was as much affected as the dandy's excessive and ostentatious refinement.]
[Footnote 20: Buddha, meaning the enlightened one, was Prince Siddhartha of Hindustan, who died about 477 B.C. He was the founder of the Buddhist religion, which teaches that the supreme attainment of mankind is Nirvana or extinction. This doctrine naturally follows from the Buddhist assumption that life is hopelessly evil. Many of the moral precepts of Buddhism are closely akin to those of Christianity.]
[Footnote 21: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), a native of Florence, is the greatest poet of Italy and one of the greatest poets of the world. His immortal poem, The Divine Comedy, is divided into three parts —"Hell," "Purgatory," and "Paradise.">[
[Footnote 22: This is a reference to the wars among the angels, which ended with the expulsion of Satan and his hosts from heaven, as related in the sixth book of Paradise Lost. This criticism of Milton is as just as it is felicitous.]