Note 399 — ACT I. SCENE I.
Reading edition
iulan down] i. e. the first tender down (Gr. ἴουλος)—a somewhat pedantic expression. Old ed. has “Julan;” and the editor of 1816, thinking that the word was a dissyllable, and that it contained an allusion to the beard of the emperor Julian, printed “[the] Julan,” &c.