The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly ...

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.