[669] O Tempora! O Mores! is the opening of the first of Ciceroʼs Catilinaria.
[670] Our author lets Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher, utter this paragraph, whilst he puts the following into the mouth of Democritus, the laughing, or better, the sneering philosopher of Abdera.
[671] According to the mythology, Lycaon, king of Arcadia, murdered his guests and served them up at his table, in order to test the divine knowledge of Jupiter, who changed him into a wolf. Ægistheus was the son of Thyestes, and the murderer of Agamemnon.
[672] William III.
[673] The “they have less to fear from us,” &c., was also one of the arguments used by France during the first revolution.
[674] This, of course, refers to the hospitality Louis XIV. granted to James II.
[675] Leopold I. (see page [252], note 499), Emperor of Germany, broke off a war in which he was engaged against the Ottomans, who had twice invaded Hungary, and entered the League of Augsburg (1686) against Louis XIV., because the latter had compelled him to accept the Treaty of Nimeguen, in 1679. See page [253], note 502.
[676] An allusion to Pope Innocent XI. (see page [361], note 655), who was too little of a friend of Louis XIV. to show much zeal on behalf of James II.
[677] Musket-balls.
[678] Cannon-balls.