Note 1 — Chapter CXVI

See the note in Vol. I, p. 465, also p. 578, and Zimmer’s Alt-Indisches Leben p. 60, Preller, Römische Mythologie, pp. 102 and 103; the vultures will remind the English reader of Shakespeare’s Julius Cæsar, V, I, 84 and ff.; for the ominous import of lightning see Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities, Art. Bidental; and Preller, Römische Mythologie, p. 172. There is a very similar passage in Achilles Tatius, Lib. V. C. 3. Ὡς οὖν προήλθομεν τῶν θυρῶν, οἰωνὸς ἡμῖν γίνεται πονηρὸς· χελιδόνα κίρκος διώκων τὴν Λευκίππην πατάσσει τῷ πτερῷ εἰς τὴν κεφαλὴν. See also Sir Thomas Browne’s Vulgar Errors, Book V, Chapter 23, Sec. 1; Webster’s Duchess of Malfi, Act II, Sc. II.