[93] "Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, a.d., 1697."
[94] Orchis is a Greek word signifying testicle, a name given by the ancients to this plant on account of the supposed resemblance of its root to that organ.
[95] Eustathii Commentarii ad Homerum, Vol. I., p. 325, 403-9. Editio Lipsiæ, 1827.
[96] Juliani Calixenæ Epistola.
[97] "Amatorio poculo furorem versus, quum aliquot libros per intervalla conscripserat."
[98] Epist. dissuas: ad Rufinum C. 22. Tom XII. p. 245, ad Varon.
[99] Remarks on the life and poems of Lucretius, p. vi. (Bohn's Classical Library).
[100] Probably to Anticyra, a Greek town situated at the mouth of the river Sperchius, and reputed to produce the genuine hellebore, recommended by the ancient physicians as a cure for insanity, whence the well known adage, "Naviget Anticyram."
[101] Sueton. Calig. 50.
[102] Juvenal. Sat. vi. v. 614.