[Footnote 2:  ‘Plato’s Phaedon’, Sec. 40.  The ridicule of Socrates in ‘The Clouds’ of Aristophanes includes the accusation that he displaced Zeus and put in his place Dinos,—­Rotation.  When Socrates, at the point of death, assents to the request that he should show grounds for his faith

’that when the man is dead, the soul exists and retains thought and power,’ Plato represents him as suggesting:  Not the sharpest censor ’could say that in now discussing such matters, I am dealing with what does not concern me.’]

[Footnote 3:  The bitter attack upon Caesar and his parasite Mamurra was notwithdrawn, but remains to us as No. 29 of the Poems of Catullus.  The doubtful authority for Caesar’s answer to it is the statement in the Life of Julius Caesar by Suetonius that, on the day of its appearance, Catullus apologized and was invited to supper; Caesar abiding also by his old familiar friendship with the poet’s father.  This is the attack said to be referred to in one of Cicero’s letters to Atticus (the last of Bk.  XIII.), in which he tells how Caesar was

  ’after the eighth hour in the bath; then he heard De Mamurra;
  did not change countenance; was anointed; lay down; took an emetic.’]

[Footnote 4:  Claude Quillet published a Latin poem in four books, entitled ‘Callipaedia, seu de pulchrae prolis habenda ratione,’ at Leyden, under the name of Calvidius Laetus, in 1655.  In discussing unions harmonious and inharmonious he digressed into an invective against marriages of Powers, when not in accordance with certain conditions; and complained that France entered into such unions prolific only of ill, witness her gift of sovereign power to a Sicilian stranger.

  ‘Trinacriis devectus ab oris advena.’

Mazarin, though born at Rome, was of Sicilian family.  In the second edition, published at Paris in 1656, dedicated to the cardinal Mazarin, the passages complained of were omitted for the reason and with the result told in the text; the poet getting ‘une jolie Abbaye de 400 pistoles,’ which he enjoyed until his death (aged 59) in 1661.]

[Footnote 5:  Pasquino is the name of a torso, perhaps of Menelaus supporting the dead body of Patroclus, in the Piazza di Pasquino in Rome, at the corner of the Braschi Palace.  To this modern Romans affixed their scoffs at persons or laws open to ridicule or censure.  The name of the statue is accounted for by the tradition that there was in Rome, at the beginning of the 16th century, a cobbler or tailor named Pasquino, whose humour for sharp satire made his stall a place of common resort for the idle, who would jest together at the passers-by.  After Pasquino’s death his stall was removed, and in digging up its floor there was found the broken statue of a gladiator.  In this, when it was set up, the gossips who still gathered there to exercise their wit, declared that Pasquino lived again.  There was a statue opposite to it called Marforio—­perhaps