anza lxxii. lines 2,
3, note 2.]
[132] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza clxxxiv. line 3, note
2.]
[133] [Compare--
"The moving moon went up the sky."
_The Ancient Mariner_, Part IV. line 263.
Compare, too--
"The climbing moon."
Act iii. sc. 3, line 40.]
[134] {105}[Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanzas v.-xi.]
[135] The philosopher Jamblicus. The story of the raising of Eros and
Anteros may be found in his life by Eunapius. It is well told. ["It is
reported of him," says Eunapius, "that while he and his scholars were
bathing in the hot baths of Gadara, in Syria, a dispute arising
concerning the baths, he, smiling, ordered his disciples to ask the
inhabitants by what names the two lesser springs, that were fairer than
the rest, were called. To which the inhabitants replied, that 'the one
was called Love, and the other Love's Contrary, but for what reason they
knew not.' Upon which Iamblichus, who chanced to be sitting on the
fountain's edge where the stream flowed out, put his hand on the water,
and, having uttered a few words, called up from the depths of the
fountain a fair-skinned lad, not over-tall, whose golden locks fell in
sunny curls over his breast and back, so that he looked like one fresh
from the bath; and then, going to the other spring, and doing as he had
done before, called up another Amoretto like the first, save that his
long-flowing locks now seemed black, now shot with sunny gleams.
Whereupon both the Amoretti nestled and clung round Iamblichus as if
they had been his own children ... after this his disciples asked him no
more questions."--Eunapii Sardiani _Vitae Philosophorum et Sophistarum_
(28, 29), _Philostratorum_, etc., _Opera_, Paris, 1829, p. 459, lines
20-50.]
[136] {107}[There may be some allusion here to "the squall off
Meillerie" on the Lake of Geneva (see Letter to Murray, June 27, 1816,
_Letters,_ 1899, iii. 333).]
[137] [Compare the concluding sentence of the Journal in Switzerland
(_ibid.,_ p. 364).]
[az] _And live--and live for ever_.--[Specimen sheet.]
[ba] {108}_As from a bath_--.--[MS, erased.]
[138] The story of Pausanias, king of Sparta, (who commanded the Greeks
at the battle of Platea, and afterwards perished for an attempt to
betray the Lacedaemonians), and Cleonice, is told in Plutarch's life of
Cimon; and in the Laconics of Pausanias the s
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