[350] Rêveries du promeneur solitaire, published in 1782, four years after Rousseau's death.—T.
[351] Études de la nature(1784).—T.
[352] Æn., IV. 625.—T.
[353] Lucian: Dialogues of the Courtezans, VII.—Author's Note.
[354] Cf. Milton, Paradise Lost, II., 752-760.
"All on a sudden miserable pain
Surprised thee; dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
Threw forth; till on the left side opening wide,
Likest to thee in shape and countenance bright,
Then shining heavenly fair, a goddess arm'd
Out of thy head I sprung: amazement seized
All the host of heaven; back they recoil'd afraid
At first, and cal I'd me Sin."—T.
[355] Sic, in all the editions.—T.
[356] Phila (fl. 370 b.c.), a celebrated Athenian courtezan and mistress to Hyperides the Attic orator.—T.
[357] Lais (d. circa 340 b.c.), a noted Corinthian courtezan, said to have been advised to adopt her profession by Apelles. Demosthenes was one of her many lovers; Diogenes another. She was assassinated in Thessaly by a number of women jealous of their husbands' affections.—T.
[358] Gnathæna, a Greek poetess and courtezan, of an uncertain period. Some of her witty sayings are recorded by Athenæus.—T.