[Footnote 108]: Singing-birds are rare in Italy, because they are sold in the market for the kitchen.
[Footnote 109]: Dian did not love Virgil.
[Footnote 110]: So heavily and slowly does the broad lava-stream roll down, that a man can travel on in advance of this glowing death-flood, which swallows up, suffocates, and melts down everything it touches, and can see the destruction behind him, without indulging an apprehension of danger to himself.
[Footnote 111]: Luther's version differs here (for the better) from ours, which makes it a negative assertion instead of a negative question,—"I was not in safety," &c.—Tr.
[Footnote 112]: Schoppe says schellen (diamonds), but laub means both leaves and spades (in cards), and therefore a liberty has been taken.—Tr.
[Footnote 113]: Püsterich or Püster, the well-known old German idol, full of holes, flames, and water.
[Footnote 114]: Of course, Jean Paul himself, a great friend of Schoppe's.—Tr.
[Footnote 115]: The Baldhead who prophesied that he would go mad in fourteen months.
[Footnote 116]: These blanks will fill themselves out in the sequel.—Tr.
[Footnote 117]: Of the Septuagint Old Testament.—Tr.