Note 477 — THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON PARAPHRASED. (continued 2)

Alastor’s] In chapter xvii. of this interminable poem, we find

“Troubled with visions from Alastor’s park;”

and

“A night more ugly than Alastor’s pack,

Mounting all nights upon his night-made back.” P. 457.

Alastor meant frequently an evil genius, an avenging fury; it is also the name of one of Pluto’s horses (see Claudian, De Rap. Pros. i. 284): our author seems to have confounded these two significations.