[266] See Cæsar "De Bello Gallico," lib, iv., s. 17, for an account of this bridge over the Rhine.
[267] Alexander the Great. Pella was a city of Macedon, where he was born.
[268] A term in archery.
[269] Erynnis is the common name of the sister Furies, but is frequently used by the poets for mischief in general.—Steevens.
[270] The ancient name of London.
[271] [Old copy, my.]
[272] There is no place oftener mentioned by the ancients than Thule, nor any one about the situation of which there has been a greater variety of opinions. Sir Robert Sibbald, in the additions to Camden, has given a discourse concerning the Thule of the ancients, in which the sentiments of different writers on this subject are considered, and many of them refuted. Camden supposes Shetland to be the place so often distinguished by the name of Thule; and Bishop Gibson appears to agree with him in the conjecture. See Camden's "Britannia." vol. ii. p. 411, edit. 1772.
[273] So in Shakespeare's "King Henry VIII."—
"These are stars indeed,
And sometimes falling ones."
—Steevens.