An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

P. [32]. the Samian master: Pythagoras, who was a native of Samos.

P. [32]. Tiresias: the Theban prophet, deprived of sight by Juno; Jupiter, in compensation, bestowed upon him the power of prophecy.

P. [32]. Theban Linus: the singer and philosopher.

P. [32]. Calchas the exile: a famous soothsayer, who accompanied the Greeks to Troy.

P. [32]. Orpheus: the fabulous Thracian poet and musician.

P. [32]. Circe: See Comus, [50-53].

P. [33]. the heavenly birth of the King of Peace: his ode On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, composed on and just after Christmas, 1629.

Ad Patrem

P. [35]. 1. Pieria's: used for Pierian, from Pierus, a mountain of Thessaly sacred to the muses.

P. 36. [18]. Clio: the Muse of History, 'inasmuch,' says Masson, 'as what he is to say about his Father is strictly true.'