39 30 "MONSTRUM HORRENDUM," ETC..: _AEneid_, III, 658. Polyphemus,
one of the Cyclopes, whose eye was put out by Ulysses, is meant. Cf.
_Odyssey_, IX, 371 et seq.; _AEneid_, III, 630 _et seq_.
40 1 ONE OF THE CALENDARS, ETC.: The histories of the three Calenders,
sons of kings, will be found in most selections from the _Arabian
Nights_. A Calender is one of an order of Dervishes founded in the
fourteenth century by an Andalusian Arab; they are wanderers who preach
in market places and live by alms.
40 10 AL SIRAT: According to Mahometan teaching this bridge over Hades
was in width as a sword's edge. Over it souls must pass to Paradise.
40 12 UNDER THIS EMINENT MAN, ETC.: For these two sentences the
original in _Blackwood_ had this, with its addition of good De
Quinceyan doctrine: "I used to call him _Cyclops Mastigophorus_,
Cyclops the Whip-bearer, until I observed that his skill made whips
useless, except to fetch off an impertinent fly from a leader's head,
upon which I changed his Grecian name to _Cyclops Diphrelates_
(Cyclops the Charioteer). I, and others known to me, studied under him
the diphrelatic art. Excuse, reader, a word too elegant to be pedantic.
And also take this remark from me as a _gage d'amitie_--that no word
ever was or _can_ be pedantic which, by supporting a distinction,
supports the accuracy of logic, or which fills up a chasm for the
understanding.
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