[{87a}] Air-flies.
[{87b}] Gr. ’Λεροκορακες, air-crows; but as all crows fly through the air, I would rather read ’Λερκορδακες, which may be translated air-dancers, from κορδαξ, cordax, a lascivious kind of dance, so called.
[{88a}] Gr. Καυλομυκητες, Caulo fungi, stalk and mushroom men.
[{88b}] Gr. Κυνοβαλανοι, cani glandacii, acorn-dogs.
[{88c}] Gr. Νεφελοκενταυροι, nubicentauri, cloud-centaurs.
[{88d}] The reason for this wish is given a little farther on in the History.
[{89}] See Hom. Il. II.. 1, 459.
[{90a}] Some authors tell us that Sagittarius was the same as Chiron the centaur; others, that he was Crocus, a famous hunter, the son of Euphemia, who nursed the Muses, at whose intercession, he was, after his death, promoted to the ninth place in the Zodiac, under the name of Sagittarius.
[{90b}] The inhabitants of the moon.
[{92}] A good burlesque on the usual form and style of treaties.