[262]: Or face-card.—Tr.
[263]: No pun in the original.—Tr.]
[264]: A Parisian anatomiste (b. 1719) persecuted by the profession to London, where she exhibited her wax-skeleton with success.—Tr.
[265]: Described on pages 127-134.—Tr.
[266]: Entertainments for the gods, at which their images were laid on couches (lecti), and food was served up to them in public.—Tr.
[267]: Panist from the Latin panis,—an allusion to an old class of charity scholars. It might be rendered, loafer.—Tr.
[268]: Alluding to the long attempts in Germany to fuse the Calvinistie and Lutheran Churches.—Tr.
[269]: Musicus here, not musicant, which latter means the more common performer, fiddler, or whatever else.—Tr.
[270]: Father confessor.—Tr.
[271]: Plutarch mentions how vain Pompey's cavaliers were of their personal appearance, and that Cæsar accordingly directed his soldiers to aim at their faces; "for Cæsar hoped that those young cavaliers who had not been used to wars and wounds, and who set a great value on their beauty, would avoid above all things a stroke in that part, and immediately give way, as well on account of the present danger as the future deformity. The event answered his expectation."—Tr.