[{105a}] Greek, παγουραδοι, crab-men.
[{105b}] ψηττοποδες, sparrow-footed, from ψηττα, passer marinus.
[{109}] Maris potor, the drinker up of the sea. Æolocentaurus and Thalassopotes were, I suppose, two Leviathans.
[{113}] One of the fifty Nereids, or Sea-Nymphs; so called, on account of the fairness of her skin: from γαλα, gala, milk; of the milky island, therefore, she was naturally the presiding deity.
[{114a}] Tyro, according to Homer, fell in love with the famous river Enipeus, and was always wandering on its banks, where Neptune found her, covered her with his waves, and throwing her into a deep sleep, supplied the place of Enipeus. Lucian has made her amends, by bestowing one of his imaginary kingdoms upon her. His part of the story, however, is full as probable as the rest.
[{114b}] Suberipedes, cork-footed.
[{116a}] This description of the Pagan Elysium, or Island of the Blessed, is well drawn, and abounds in fanciful and picturesque imagery, interspersed with strokes of humour and satire. The second book is, indeed, throughout, more entertaining and better written than the first.
[{116b}] See the Ajax Flagellifer of Sophocles. Lucian humorously degrades him from the character of a hero, and gives him hellebore as a madman.
[{118}] It is not improbable but that Voltaire’s El Dorado in his “Candide,” might have been suggested to him by this passage.
[{119}] I.e. Their appearance is exactly like that of shadows made by the sun at noonday, with this only difference, that one lies flat on the ground, the other is erect, and one is dark, the other light or diaphanous. Our vulgar idea of ghosts, especially with regard to their not being tangible, corresponds with this of Lucian’s.