[Note 48]. Page 485.
Icarus.—See Sueton, Nero, 12; Dio Chrysost. Orat. xxi. 9. There seems to be an echo of this incident in the legend about the attempted flight of Simon Magus. Cyril Hierosol. Catech. vi. 15; Arnob. C. Gentes, ii. 12. See Lipsius, Petrus-Sage, and Fabricius, Cod. Apocr. N. T. iii. 632.
[Note 49]. Page 485.
See Clem. Rom. Ad Cor. i. 6. Διὰ ζῆλος διωχθεῖσαι γυναῖκες Δαναΐδες καὶ Δίρκαι αἰκίσματα δεινὰ καὶ ἀνόσια παθοῦσαι· ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς πίστεως βέβαιον δρόμον κατήντησαν καὶ ἔλαβον γέρας γενναῖον αἱ ἀσθενεῖς τῷ σώματι. I do not see any reason to accept any alterations of the reading. See, too, Renan, L’Antéchrist, p. 167. The Dirce-statue, known as the Farnese Bull, is now in the Museo Borbonico at Naples.
[Note 50]. Page 489.
I am indebted for one slight touch in this scene to the otherwise absurd sketch in Latour St.-Ybars’ Néron.
[Note 51]. Page 540.
Dion Cassius tells the fate of Corbulo in three energetic words: παίων ἔλεγεν Ἄξιος (lxiii. 17).
[Note 52]. Page 556.
The reader who is familiar with the cycles of early Christian legend will recognise that I borrow the character of Patroclus and various incidents of these scenes from the Acts of Linus. They are printed in De la Bigne, Bibl. Patr. Max. ii. 67; and some account of them is given by Dr. Salmon, in Dict. Christ. Biog. iii. 726. See, too, the allusion of St. Chrysostom, Hom. xlvi. in Actt. App.