Note 17, page 21, line 2.
Preserved inviolate their awful fane.
See the account from Herodotus of the supernatural defence of Delphi.—Mitford's Greece, vol. i. page 396, 7.
Note 18, page 21, line 16.
Who from the dead at Marathon arose.
"In succeeding ages the Athenians honoured Theseus as a demi-god, induced to it as well by other reasons, as because, when they were fighting the Medes at Marathon, a considerable part of the army thought they saw the apparition of Theseus completely armed, and bearing down before them upon the Barbarians."—Langhorne's Plutarch, life of Theseus.
Note 19, page 21, line 19.
Or they whose forms, to Alaric's awe-struck eye.
"From Thermopylæ to Sparta, the leader of the Goths (Alaric) pursued his victorious march without encountering any mortal antagonist, but one of the advocates of expiring paganism has confidently asserted, that the walls of Athens were guarded by the goddess Minerva, with her formidable ægis, and by the angry phantom of Achilles, and that the conqueror was dismayed by the presence of the hostile deities of Greece."—Gibbon's Decline and Fall, &c. vol. v. page 183.
Note 20, page 22, line 1.
Ye slept, oh heroes! chief ones of the earth.
"Even all the chief ones of the earth."—Isaiah, 14th chapter.
Note 21, page 22, line 18.
Perished the conquering weapons of your war.
"How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"—Samuel, 2d book, 1st chap.
