[5] Three tolas is 540 grains, or 1½ oz.
[6] Mahaffy, “History of Classical Greek Literature,” 1-81.
“Down sank his head, as in a garden sinks
A ripened poppy charg’d with vernal rains;
So sank his head beneath his helmet’s weight.”
Iliad. (Lord Derby’s translation, VIII.)
[8] “Huic, nuntio, quia, credo, dubiæ fidei videbatur, nihil voce responsum est, Rex, velut deliberabundus, in hortum ædium transit, sequente nuntio filii: ibi inambulans tacitus, sum apapaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.” Livy i., 54.
[9] “Lethæo perfusa papavera somno.” Georg.: i, 78.
[10] “Soporiferumque papaver.” Aeneid: iv, 486.