[ [125] 9. Day were dark and drear; Napoleon's famous defeat, and retreat from Moscow, October, 1815.
[ [126] 15. Die. What is the plural?
[ [127] 23. Gieta was a colonel in the king of Sweden's army.
[ [128] 51. Levels man and brute. Burke says in his Speech on Conciliation with America, "Public calamity is a mighty leveller."
[ [129] 56. Hetman.[See Introductory Note.] Mazeppa was sixty-four years old.
[ [130] 104. Bucephalus; the horse of Alexander the Great. Alexander, when a boy, was the first to tame this horse, thereby, in fulfilment of the oracle, proving his right to the throne.
[ [131] 105. Scythia was a country, north and northeast of the Black Sea, which was inhabited by nomadic people. It was noted for its horses.
[ [132] 116. Borysthenes; another name for the Dnieper River.
[ [133] 151. A Mime was a sort of farce, travestying real persons or events.
[ [134] 154. Thyrsis was one of the names commonly used for shepherds in the Greek and Latin pastoral poets, as Theocritus, Bion, Virgil. The names were conventionally used by modern imitators of these poets.