[NOTES]
[1.] See Pliny's Letter on Minicia Marcella, [p. 109].
[2.] Copyright. Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
[3.] Virgil must bring some rare perfume in exchange for the rich wine, since Horace thus playfully conditions his invitation.
[4.] A little girl who died at six years of age.
[5.] This well known epigram is the original of one equally famous in English, that written by Tom Brown on Dr. John Fell, about 1670.
"I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this I know and know full well
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell."
[6.] Anacreon was a Greek society poet, living in the sixth century b.c.
[7.] From the Prayer-book of Queen Mary, and believed to be her composition. Said to have been uttered by the queen just before her execution.
[8.] By permission of Miss M. L. Smith. Latin Lessons. Allyn and Bacon.