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A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
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man of the sea. A legend concerning her is found in the 4th book of the
Odyssey.]

[Footnote 54: There is such a monument at Pornic.]

[Footnote 55: These words are taken from a line in the Prometheus of
Æschylus.]

[Footnote 56: Mr. Browning desires me to say that he has been wrong in
associating this custom with the little temple by the river Clitumnus
which he describes from personal knowledge. That to which the tradition
refers stood by the lake of Nemi.]

[Footnote 57: The Cardinal himself reviewed this poem, not
disapprovingly, in a catholic publication of the time]

[Footnote 58: This refers to the popular Neapolitan belief that a
crystallized drop of the blood of the patron saint, Januarius, is
miraculously liquefied on given occasions.]

[Footnote 59: The "Iketides" (Suppliants), mentioned in Section XVIII.,
is a Tragedy by Æschylus, the earliest extant: and of which the text is
especially incomplete: hence, halting, and "maimed."]

[Footnote 60: This poem, like "Aristophanes' Apology," belongs in spirit
more than in form to its particular group. Each contains a dialogue, and
in the present case we have a defence, though not a specious one of the
judgment attained]

[Footnote 61: We recognize the _cogito ergo sum_ of Descartes.]
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