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Boyle's Phalaris

P. 90, l. 2. Thomas Fazellus, i.e. Fazelli (1490-1570), an Italian historian: author of De Rebus Siculis.

Jacques Cappel (1570-1624), a French Protestant theologian and classical scholar.

P. 90, l. 4. With the latter, &c. The passage which follows is a paraphrase of that printed at pp. 71-2 of this vol.

P. 90, l. 20. Politian, see note on p. 71, 1. 23.

Lilio Giraldi (1479-1552), an Italian poet and scholar.

Bourdelot, i. e. Jean Bourdelot (d. 1638), produced editions of Lucian, and other classical writers.

P. 91, l. 1. two speeches of Lucian, two declamations on the subject of Phalaris, attributed very doubtfully to Lucian.

P. 93, l. 6. the destruction of Naxos. Naxos was destroyed (B.C. 403) by Dionysius the Elder (not the Younger). (See Bentley's second Dissertation (1699), p. 187.)

P. 93, l. 16 and foll. For the various editions of Phalaris see pp. 305-8 of this vol.

P. 97, last line. Siceliotae, Greek settlers in Sicily.

P. 98, l. 18. Paurolas, son of Phalaris and Erythia

Bentley's first Dissertation (1697)

P. 107, ll. 1, 2. the very matter and business. Cf. Temple, pp. 71-2 of Appendix.

P. 108, l. 10. sprinkles a little dust, Vergil, Georg. IV. 87.

P. 110, l. 9. Astypalaea. Bentley showed that Astypalaea was not a city in Crete, as Boyle's edn. stated (p. 157), but an island of the Sporades (see Bentley's first Dissertation (1697), pp. 44-5: and second Dissertation (1699), pp. 323-9).