[315] Naples.
[316] Parthenope was one of the Syrens. Enraged because she could not allure Ulysses, she threw herself into the sea. Her corpse was thrown ashore, and buried where Naples now stands.
[317] The coast of Alexandria.
[318] Among the Christians of Abyssinia.
[319] Sandy, the French sable = sand.—Ed.
[320] The Nabathean mountains; so named from Nabaoth, the son of Ishmael.
[321] Beyond where Trajan.—The Emperor Trajan extended the bounds of the Roman Empire in the East far beyond any of his predecessors. His conquests reached to the river Tigris, near which stood the city of Ctesiphon, which he subdued. The Roman historians boasted that India was entirely conquered by him; but they could only mean Arabia Felix.—Vid. Dion. Cass. Euseb. Chron. p. 206.
[322] Qui mores hominum multorum vidit.—Hor.
[323] Emmanuel was cousin to the late king, John II. and grandson to king Edward, son of John I.
[324] The river Indus, which gave name to India.