FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 86: From the "Natural History." Translated by John Bostock

and H. T. Riley.]

[Footnote 87: A name applied to tribes living in Africa east of the

desert of Sahara.]

[Footnote 88: An Ionian city of Asia, distant seventy miles from

Ephesus.]

[Footnote 89: An interior town of Cilicia, in Asia Minor.]

[Footnote 90: The home of this warlike people appears to have been

Jutland.]

[Footnote 91: The tyrant king of Syracuse, successor to Gelon.]

[Footnote 92: A country of Asia Minor occupying a part of the Black

Sea coast.]

[Footnote 93: From the "Natural History." Translated by John Bostock

and H. T. Riley.]

[Footnote 94: Apelles lived in the time of Philip and Alexander the

Great. Cos is an island in the AEgean Sea.]

[Footnote 95: A painter of the Sicyonian school who flourished in the

third century B.C.]

[Footnote 96: Protogenes, a native of Caria, in Asia Minor, was

celebrated as a painter at Rhodes in the second half of the fourth

century B.C.]

[Footnote 97: Praxiteles was born in Athena about the end of the fifth

century and continued active as an artist until the time at Alexander

the Great. Nearly sixty of his works are mentioned in ancient

writings, but only two have been identified in modern times.]

[Footnote 98: Phidias was born in Athens about 500 B.C. and died about

430.]

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