[738:3] See Holmes, page [637].
[739:1] In the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (Rudolphe Erich Raspe), stories gathered from various sources, is found the story of sound being frozen for a time in a post-horn, which when thawed gave a variety of tunes. A somewhat similar account is found in Rabelais, book iv. chaps. lv. lvi., referring to Antiphanes.
[739:2] See Heywood, page [11].
[739:3] See Burton, page [186].
[739:4] See Garrison, page [605].
[740:1] See Pliny, page [717].
[740:2] See Mrs. Browning, page [621].
Plutarch relates (Isis and Osiris) that a ship well laden with passengers drove with the tide near the Isles of Paxi, when a loud voice was heard by most of the passengers calling unto one Thanus. The voice then said aloud to him, "When you are arrived at Palodes, take care to make it known that the great god Pan is dead."
[740:3] I am the things that are, and those that are to be, and those that have been. No one ever lifted my skirts; the fruit which I bore was the sun.—Proclus: On Plato's Timæus, p. 30 D. (Inscription in the temple of Neith at Sais, in Egypt.)
[740:4] No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre.—Marshal Catinat (1637-1712).