[296] Dante: Hell, Canto I., 50.—B.
[297] The Sirens, daughters of Achelous and Calliope, represented as having the head, arms and bust of a young woman and the wings and lower part of the body of a bird.—T.
[298] Cf. Vir., Geor., IV., 82-83, 86-87:
Ipsi per medias acies, insignibus alis,
Ingentes animos angusto in pectore versant.
. . . . . . . .
Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta
Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt.—B.
[299] La Fayette died in Paris on the 19th of May 1834. He was already suffering from indisposition, when he insisted on following, on foot, the funeral of Dulong, the deputy killed in a duel by General Bugeaud. He took to his bed on returning home and did not leave it again.—B.
[300] Rivarol, in the early days of the Revolution, had nicknamed General La Payette "César-Gille."—B.
[301] La Fayette was mixed up in Caron's military conspiracy at Belfort in 1821 (Cf. Vol. IV., p. 211, nn. 4-5).—T.
[302] Having failed to secure his re-election as a deputy in 1824, La Fayette took advantage of this enforced rest to revisit America. He was absent from France for fourteen months.—B.
[303] Edward Everett (1794-1865), a celebrated American statesman, orator and author. He was professor of Greek at Harvard College from 1819 to 1825; editor of the North American Review from 1820 to 1824; Member of Congress from Massachusetts from 1825 to 1835; Governor of Massachusetts from 1836 to 1840; Minister to England from 1841 to 1845; President of Harvard College from 1846 to 1849; Secretary of State from 1852 to 1853; and Senator from Massachusetts from 1853 to 1854. In 1860, he was the candidate for Vice-president of the Constitutional Union Party. His Orations and Speeches on various Occasions were published in Boston, in 4 volumes, in 1850.—T.
[304] Everett: An Oration pronounced at Cambridge before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, August 26, 1824 (Boston, Mass.: 1824).—T.