Note 1341 — Chapter XVI
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It appears, says Drake, to have been suggested to the mind of Sir Philip by two models of very different ages, and to have been built, in fact, on their admixture; these are the Ethiopic History of Heliodorus, bishop of Tricca in Thessaly, and the Arcadia of Sannazaro, p. 549. A translation of Heliodorus had been published a short time before.