[802] The Linum usitatissimum of Linnæus.
[803] What would he have said to the application of the powers of steam, and the electric telegraph?
[804] Possibly Galerius Trachalus, Consul A.D. 68, a relation of Galeria Fundana, the wife of the Emperor Vitellius.
[805] Governor of Egypt in the reign of Nero, A.D. 55. He is mentioned by Seneca, Quæst. Nat. B. iv. c. 2, and is supposed to have written a work on Egypt and his journeys in that country.
[806] Or, as Sillig suggests, “after ill treatment such as this, that it arrives at the sea.” The passage is evidently defective.
[807] In B. vii. c. 57. He alludes to Dædalus.
[808] He probably has in view here the imprecation uttered by Horace:—
“Illi robur, et æs triplex
Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci
Commisit pelago ratem.”—Odes, i. 3.