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1. 21. which came to pass, i.e., which dream was fulfilled. 



1. 24. vulgar, known to all. 



1. 25. infolded, condensed : literally, ' wrapped up,' so as to 

 occupy little space. 



1. 27. and Apollo, etc., this line of Horace has passed into a 

 proverb meaning that 'every one relaxes occasionally.' Cf. 

 ' Ease and relaxation are profitable to all studies. The mind is 

 like a bow, the stronger by being unbent." (Ben Jonson.) 



1. 28. naked, cf. our use of the word ' bare,' in the phrases a 

 'bare assertion,' and 'barely to mention,' i.e., without any com 

 ment. 



1. 30. a glance, a single remark. A glance is a rapid look. 



1. 36. proceeding upon, caused by. 



Page 50, 1. 4. Phrebus, etc. Nerva asks his son, under the 

 name of Phoebus, to avenge his father's wrongs. The line is taken 

 from Homer, who describes the priest Chryses as calling upon 

 his patron god Apollo to avenge the wrong which he had suffered 

 in the abduction of his daughter by Agamemnon. 



1. 5. was for his person not learned, was not himself a learned 

 man. 



1. 7. in the name of a prophet, i.e., because he is a prophet : 

 out of respect for his sacred character. Trajan did honour to 

 learned men out of respect for their learning, and therefore 

 should be honoured equally with the learned, on the principle 

 that he that receiveth a prophet, etc. 



1. 13. who were noted, In the Latin Bacon adds that this was 

 the more remarkable because he was a warlike emperor. 



1. 17. legend, used as an adj. , legendary. Gregorius Magnus, 

 p. 45, 1. 31. 



1. 19. the love, we should say ' his love.' 



1. 22. out of hell, the Catholic Church excluded non-Christians 

 from heaven, a caveat, a warning. For the legend, cf. Dante, 

 Purg. 10. 73, Paradiso, 20. 106. 



1. 24. the persecutions, see Gibbon, ch. xvi. Pliny was governor 

 of Bithynia, and asked Trajan's advice as to how the Christians 

 were to be dealt with. 



1. 26. advanced, promoted. 



1. 27. curious, inquiring. The word now means either ' in 

 quisitive' or 'strange.' Gibbon, ch. 1, says of Hadrian, "that 

 his life was almost a perpetual journey : and as he possessed the 

 various talents of the soldier, the statesman, and the scholar, he 

 gratified his curiosity in the discharge of his duty . . . nor was 

 there a province of the empire which, in the course of his reign, 

 was not honoured with the presence of the monarch. " 



