P. 75, l. 9. his last Portugal expedition: Alva's expedition against Portugal started in 1581, and Alva died in 1582.
P. 76, l. 18. Alphonsus, King of Arragon. Cf. Bacon's Apothegms, No. 97.
Wotton's Reflections (Chapter VIII)
P. 77, last line. Diogenes Laertius, who probably lived in the second century after Christ, wrote the Lives of the Philosophers.
P. 78, l. 2. Menagius' calculation. Giles Menage (1613-1692) produced an edition of Diogenes Laertius in 1663, and another improved edition in 1692.
P. 78, l. 11. Graecia mendax, Juvenal, Sat. X. 174.
P. 78, l. 16. Zaleucus, lived 160 years before Pythagoras, and gave laws to the Epizephyrian Locrians (see Bentley's Dissertation, 1699, pp.334-58)
Charondas, lawgiver of Catana, said by some to have been a disciple of Pythagoras (see Bentley's Dissertation, 1699, pp. 358-77).
P. 79, l. 22. Hermippus de Arisioxenus, two very considerable writers of Pythagoras his life [Wotton].
P. 79, l. 23. Porphry (233-305 or 6 A.D.), a Neoplatonist, and antagonist of Christianity. He wrote Lives of Pythagoras, Plotinus, &c.
Jamblichus (d. before 333 A.D.), a Neoplatonist, who wrote on the philosophy of Pythagoras.
P. 80, l. ii. Van Dalen (1638-1708), a Dutch scholar, wrote two Dissertations de Oraculis Ethnicorum (1683). Fontenelle translated and abridged Van Dalen's work in his Histoire des Oracles.
