[1824]. Compare Trollope, Notes on St. John, x. i.
[1825]. Aleuas, the Thessalian, is said to have been favoured with the visits of a very different mistress as he pastured his herds on Mount Ossa, near the Hæmonian spring; for a dragon of enormous size, becoming enamoured of his beauty and golden hair, frequently approached the shepherd with presents of game of her own catching. Having laid her gifts at his feet, she would kiss his locks and lick his face with her tongue, which, as the fountain was so near it, may be hoped was a work of supererogation. Ælian. De Nat. Animal. viii. 11.
[1826]. Hymn. ad Vener. 158, sqq.
[1827]. Dion Chrysostom. Orat. vii. t. i. p. 219, sqq. Phot. 166. a. 24.
[1828]. On this mountain and the mythological legends attached to it, see Virg. Æn. xi. 260, with the note of Servius. Ovid. Metamorph. xiv. 472. Cf. Propert. v. 115, sqq. Jacobs. Plin. iv. 21. An ancient scholiast, quoted by Morell, thus relates the revenge of Nauplios: Ναύπλιος τοῦ υἱέος δὴ τοῦ Παλαμήδους τοῦ φόνου ἀμυνόμενος τοὺς Ἕλλήνας τοῦ ἀνέμου αὐτοῖς ἐνστάντος· ἐπεὶ τοῦτον διὰ θαλάττης ἐγέλων. αὐτὸς οὗτος τὸν Καφηρέα καταλαβὼν εἶτα νυκτὸς πυρσεύων ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖσε πετρωδῶν πάγων, ἠπάτα προσχεῖν, ὡς δή τινι εὐπροσόδῳ ἀκτῆ τοῖς ἀποτόμοις κρημνοῖς εἰς βάθος ἐῤῥιζωμένοις καὶ χοιράσι διειλημμένοις. καὶ οὕτως ἀπρόοπτως ἀπωλόντο. Schediasm. &c., in Dion. t. ii. p. 580, seq. Cf. Strab. viii. 6. t ii. p. 195. Apollodor. ii. i. 5. Orph. Argonaut. 204, sqq.
[1829]. On the purple fisheries of Eubœa, cf. Feder. Morell. Schediasm. &c., in Dion. ii. 576. Reiske. and Aristot. Hist. Animal. v. 15.
[1830]. A life equally simple is led by the Albanian shepherds of the present day. “They live on the mountains, in the vale or the plain, as the varying seasons require, under arbours, or sheds, covered with boughs, tending their flocks abroad, or milking the ewes and she-goats at the fold, and making cheese and butter to supply the city.” Chandler, ii. p. 135.
[1831]. Iliad. β. 541. δ. 464. The long hair of these ancient warriors is thus mentioned by the Homeric Scholiast: τὰ ὀπίσω μέρη τῆς κεφαλῆς κομῶντες ἀνδρείας χάριν. ἴδιον δὲ τοῦτο τῆς τῶν Εὐβοέων κουρᾶς, τὸ ὄπισθεν τὰς τρίχας βαθείας ἔχειν. t. i. p. 83. Bekker.
[1832]. Cf. Theoph. De Sign. Pluv. i. 22.
[1833]. Had Bernardin de St. Pierre read this when he wrote his Indian Cottage?