Note 2 — Scene 4.

It is rather curious how the antients saw so much of him as that his period was tolerably guessed, at least so far back as the days of Cicero.—De Nat. Deor. II. 20. They knew it to be less than the Earth’s: which, though far from accurate, was a nearer calculation than could be then expected. And this is the more remarkable if Cicero had it from Plato, and he from Ægypt and Syria.