Note 269 — Chapter IX · THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT

Nectanebus, sometimes spelt Neptanebus, is perhaps the ‘Naptium’ of the Picatrix (iii. 8). See also on this curious subject the Pancrates of Lucian, the verses of Adalberone or Ascelin (A.D. 1006) in the Recueil des Hist. des Gaules (Bouquet x. 67), the English romance of Alisaundre (Early English Text Soc. 1867) and the Alexander of Juan Lorenzo Segura de Astorga. In this last poem, which belongs to the thirteenth century, the hero’s arms are said to have been forged by the fairies. There is an article on ‘Nectanebo’ by D. G. Hogarth in the Eng. Hist. Review, Jan. 1896. The same mystic fame attached itself to Pythagoras.