female creature is allowed to enter its ground.

[13] Panselenus, a famous Byzantine painter, who is believed to be the
author of some of the Madonnas and Christs found in the monasteries
of the mountain.

[14] On classic Greece, in contrast with the following sonnet which
refers to the spirit of Greece throughout the ages, from the
classic period to the time of the Byzantine Empire.

[15] The Islands of the Ionian Sea.

[16] The hero of medieval Greece, Digenes Akritas, who is supposed to
have lived on the slopes of the Taurus mountains in Asia Minor and
to have fought against the invading Saracens. There are a great
number of folk-songs about him not only in Greek but in Turkish,
Bulgarian, Serbian, and Albanian as well.

[17] The word, meaning "blessed one," is here applied to ideal womanhood
and must not be confused with Makaria of p. 103, the mythical
Theban princess.

[18] The translator of Homer and Shakespeare. See notes 8 and 9, p. 80.

[19] A pseudonym for Constantine Chatzopoulos, one of the leading
literary figures in Athens to-day. He has written poems under this
pseudonym. But he is now mainly known as a master of short stories
which he has published under his real name, and as the translator
of Goethe's _Faust_ and of Hofmannsthal's _Electra_. This poem
dedicated to him was written during the unfortunate Greco-Turkish
war of 1897.

[20] Maviles was born in Ithaca, 1860, and fell in the battle of
Driscos, November 29, 1912. He is the writer of exquisite sonnets
and the successful translator of various foreign poems. The
Cretan Revolution of 1896 is here alluded to, which led to the
Greco-Turkish war of 1897. Maviles was one of the first to hasten
to Crete to help in the struggle for liberty.

[21] Alexandros Pallis is one of the greatest literary figures of
contemporary Greece, who, like Psicharis, has lived mostly far from
Greece. He is a poet, a critic, and a satirist. But his fame is
mainly due to his translation of the _Iliad_ and that of the _New
Testament_. The publication of the latter caused the student riots
of 1901.

[22] The poet had in mind the following lines of Sully Prudhomme from
his _Stances et Poemes_, L'ame:

Tous les corps offrent des contours,
Mais d'ou vienne la forme qui touche?
Comment fais-tu les grands amours,