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316 NOTES TO pp. 270—275, 11. 5-175— 5644. 5475. Here we have the story of the sirens or mermaids. 6482. Lat. " dentes habebaut ; vt canes " col. 2. 5483. Cf. Mandeville's Travels, ch. xxvi. p. 265. 5487. Lat. " Gog et Magog, Agatan, Magehon, Alegthor, Appelmai, Limith, lunii, Rothe, Redem, Ceinarre, Cabellea, Caniarciant, Catbomi, Amaide, Getimadi, Anafag, Candorem, Rinocepbali, Tbirbei, Alonis, Accimei, Philonis, Satramei et Soltani " ; ib. 5504. Lat. "homines lingua Greca loquentes;" f 2, back, col. 1. 5512. Lat. " vt fere celo propinquius asset;" ib. 5520. "Flesh a little way off from them that they could not reach to." 5530. Lat. "cum angustia maxima ad exercitum peruenit ;" col. 2. 5531. I give the Latin of this remarkable passage. " Post hec ascendit in cor Alexandri vt maris profunda quereret et omnium piscium genera scrutaretur. Statiinque iussit vitrarios ante se venire, et precepit eis vt facerent dolium ex vitro clarissimo et splendidissimo vt possent a foris omnia clarissime conspici. Factumque est ita. Deindo iussit eum cathenis ferreis religari et a fortissimis militibus teneri. At ille intrans ipsum dolium clausa porta ex pice composita descendit in profundum maris. Uiditque ibi diuersas figuras piscium et diuersos colores habentes imagines bestiarum terre, et per terram in profundo maris tanquim bestie pedibus ambulantes et comedebant fructus arborum que in profundo maris nascebantur. Ipse autem belue veniebant vsque ad eum, postea fugiebant. Uiditque alia mirabilia que nemini voluit euarrare eo quod hominibus incredibilia viderentur. Teinpus vero raansionis sue in aquis quod militibus suis predixit Alexander completum erat, et traxerunt eum milites ad superiora ; " ib. 5557. " Inuenerunt animalia que habebant in capite ossa serrata et acuta vt gladius ; " f 2, back, col. 2, and f 3, col. 1. 5566. Tupis, tups, rams; Lat. "arietes;" f 3, col. 1. 5594. Lat. " quam in eius memoriam nominauit Bucifallam ; " col. 2. 5596. Detiraty ; Lat. "Humen qui {sic) dicitur Tyruw. Et obuianerunt sibi homines illius terre ferentes ei elephantum quinque milia et currus falcatos centum milia;" ib. 6613. Nabizanda ; Lat. "Nabuzardon ; " ib. 5615. Lat. "vsque ad diem obitus sui ibidem per septem menses, in pace mortuus ; " ib. 5619. The letter of Alexander to Aristotle is given by J. Valerius, bk. iii. capp. xxiii—xliii, and contains an account of the wonders which Alexander had seen in his expedition, many of which have already been narrated in the present version. An Anglo-Saxon version of Alexander's letter was edited by Mr. Cockayne in 1861 in his " Narratiuncuhe Anglice Conscriptae." 5641. Statute, an error for statue; the Lat. text has statua. 5644. "Parietes vero ex topasio et per vniuersos gradus erant preciosi lapides cuiusque generis inserti. Erat etiam in summitate ipsius lapidis rubicundus qui tam in nocte quani in die lucebat. Et in ipso
NOTES TO p. 276, 11. 5656, 5677. 317 tlirono eiaiit imagines vndiqiie constitute, in quibus erant versus scripti Grecis literis et Latinis noniina omnia piouinciaruni que seruiebant Alexandro ; " f 3, back, coll. 1 and 2. 5656. This list of names is not in the Latin text. Pantld is Partliia. ^lany of tl)e names seem to be inserted at random, and the list includes places scattered over almost every part of Europe and Asia ; compare the list of places conquered by king Arthur, as given in the alliterative Morte Arthure, p. 2. 5677. The fragment ends here. The rest of the story, as given on pp. 276—278, is abridged from the Latin text, leaf f 3, back, &c. NOTES ON THE "STORY OF ALEXANDER." 280, See p. 42, \. 893 of the Poem. See 11. 4019—4066 of the Poem ; and cf. 1. 4194. See Alexander and Dindimus, p. 3, 1. 69. See the same, p. 4, 1. 88. This story is neither in the Romance here printed, nor in Alexander and Dindimus. Tlie same remark applies to the next story, beginning at 1. 120. See p. 274, 1. 5617. "One of the grettest lordez" may refer to Ptolemy of Egypt ; but the story referred to is insufficientlyindicated.
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& & ; Ashmole.] artaxerxes invadks
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& Aslmiole.] the queen consults him
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Ashmole.] Alexander has no peer. 21
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; 38 NICHOLAS REVILES ALEXANDER. [A
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; ; 40 PHILIP ATTACKS ALEXANDER. [A
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& & & 46 ALEXANDER RETURNS. [Ashmol
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' 50 THE OLD KNIGHTS WISH TO STAY A
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; 52 ALEXANDER WINS CHALCEDON. [Ash
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; : 54 ALEXANDER SHOOTS A HUGE HART
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; ; ; 58 ALEXANDER IN EGYPT. [Ashmo
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; 60 ALEXANDER ATTACKS TYRE. [Ashmo
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& 62 THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM REFUSE
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' ; ; 64 DEEDS OF MELEAGER AND SAMP
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& 66 SAMPSON IS SLAIN, [Ashmole. Wi
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68 BALAAN DESTROYS THE SIEGE-WORKS
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; 72 ALEXANDERS STRAXGE HREAM. [Ash
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; ; 74 ALEXANDER ASSAULTS TYRE. [As
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; 80 TUB BISHOP PROCLAIMS A FAST. [
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' ; 90 ALEXANDER GOES TO THE TEMPLE
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9^ Darius' letter to Alexander. [As
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! 98 THOU THYSELF ART BUT A DWARF.
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102 ALEXANDER WRITES TO DARIUS. [As
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: 108 DARIUS SAYS ALEXANDER WANTS A
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110 DARIUS AGAIN REPROVES ALEXANDER
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; THE BATTLE LASTS FOR THREE DATS,
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120 ALEXANDERS PRAISE OF HOMER. [As
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''' my-selfe ; 130 ALEXANDER HOLDS
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183 DARIUS GOES TO SUSA. [Ashmole.
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