[1] Jones, _Trad. N. American Indians_ (1830), vol. iii. 175.
[2] Original edition in Latin. A translation by John Campbell, LL.D.,
under the title of _Hermippus Redivivus_, London, 1743. A second edition
much enlarged, under the title _Hermippus Redivivus, or the Sage’s Triumph
over Old Age and the Grave_, London, 1749, 8vo. We have seen also an
Italian translation. That from which we quote is the German edition.
[3] It is possible that, by the engraver’s fault, the L in the last
inscription may have been substituted for an X.
[4] Ἔστρεψεν τὰ ταβλία τῶν πλακουνταρίων.
[5] Εἷς φουσκάριος.
[6] Εἷς Θεὸς, ἀββᾶ Συμεὼν, εἰς τὸν χεῖρα σου θυμιᾷς.
[7] Τί ἐστιν ἔξηχε, ἴδε, οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐγὼ μόνος ἀπέργης.
[8] Θέλων οὖν ὁ Ὅσιος ἀναλῦσαι τὴν οἰκοδομὴν αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ θριαμβεύσῃ
αὐτὸν, ἐν μιᾷ κοιμωμένης τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ μόνης, κᾀκείνου προβάλλοντος
οἶνον, ἐπέβη πρὸς αὐτὴν ὃ ἀββᾶς Συμεὼν, καὶ ἐχηματίσατο ἀποδύεσθαι τὸ
ἱμάτιον αὐτοῦ, κ.τ.λ.
[9] Ὥστε ἔστιν ὅτε ἔβαλλον τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν τὰ ἄσεμνα γύναια εἰς τὸν
κόλπον αὐτοῦ,καὶ ἐσίαινον, καὶ ἐκόπταζον, καὶ ἐγαργάλιζον αὐτόν.
[10] Ἐβάσταζεν αὐτὸν μία προϊσταμενὴ, καὶ ἄλλη ἑλώριζεν αὐτόν.
[11] Πολλάκις δὲ προσποιεῖσθαι καταφιλεῖν τὰς δούλας. No wonder if one of
them said, “Ο Σαλὸς Συμεὼν ἐβιάςατό με.” The maid’s mistress indignantly
scolded Symeon, who replied with a smile, “Ἄφες, ἄφες, ταπεινὴ, ἄρτι γεννᾶ
σοι, καὶ ἔχεις μικρὸν Συμεών.”
[12] Σειρὰν σαλσικίων.
[13] Σιλίγνια, καὶ πλακοῦντας, καὶ σφαίρια, καὶ ὀψάρια, καὶ οἰνάρια
διάφορα, ψαθύρια, καὶ γλυκὺ, καὶ ἁπλῶς ὅσα πάντα ἔχει ὁ βίος λιμβά.
[14] Ἔστι γὰρ ὅτε καὶ τοῦτο ἔλεγε πρὸς μίαν τῶν ἑταιρίδων· θέλεις ἔχο σε
φίλην καὶ δίδω σοι ἑκατὸν ὁλοκοτίνα.
[15] Both are published in the _Acta Sanctorum_ for June, T.I., pp.
237-260, with notes by Papebroeck, the Bollandist.
[16] “Monachus aspectu venerabilis, barba prolixa, corpore nudus, capillis
canus.” This old monk was St. Luke the Stylite, appearing in vision.
[17] “Unus--cum gravi baculo ascendens ad eum, ipsum graviter ac dure
cædens, de ecclesiæ trullo descendere fecit, cum multa festinantia et
furore.”--_Fr. Barth._
[18] The biographer thinks a dolphin must have bitten his cords, and thus
freed him.
[19] A blending is a changeling, or one who is half troll, half human.
[20] They form a huge ancient moraine.
[21] It much resembles the beautiful Marjelen Sea, familiar to the visitor
to Aegischhorn.
[22] The writer has been over this portion of the ground, and knows the
course pursued.
[23] It is not easy to make out what fell is meant. Possibly it may be the
ridge called Thorir’s Head.
[24] In another version one ball was _gold_, the other _silver_. I sent
this story to Mr. Henderson, and it is included in the first edition of
his _Folklore of the Northern Counties_, but omitted in the second.
[25] The portion within brackets I got from a different informant. The
first version was incomplete; the girls had forgotten how the ball was
recovered. They forgot also what happened with the second ball.
[26] Powel and Magnusson, _Legends of Iceland_ (1864), p. 161.
[27] Cf. Xenoph. _Memor._ IV. vii. 7.
[28] The apocryphal Lith. 289.
[29] “Solis gemma candida est, et ad speciem sideris in orbem fulgentes
spargit radios” (_Hist. Nat._ xxxvi. 10, 67.)
[30] Grimm, _D. M._ p. 665.
[31] _Hist. Anglic._ i. 27. See also Gervase of Tilbury, cxlv., for an
account of the subterranean world reached by the cave in the Peak of
Derby.
[32] _Itin. Camb._ i. 8.
[33] See for account of the gem-lighted underworld, Mannhardt, _Germ.
Mythol._ (1858), p. 447.
[34] Egilson, _Lex. poet. linguæ Sept._ Men = monile, thesaurus, saxum,
lapis.
[35] Roger of Wendover’s _Flowers of Hist._, s.a. 1196. The story is an
addition made to the original by Matthew Paris.
[36] Spiegel, _Anecdota Pâlica_ (1845), p. 53.
[37] Benfy, _Pantschatantra_ (1859), ii. p. 128.
[38] Cf. Benfy, _op. cit._ i. p. 214.
[39] Bababathra, 74, 6.
[40] I said at the beginning of this article that the alchemists were
right in believing the Philosopher’s Stone to be complex, made up of many
metals. We know now that the germ idea of the stone is the sun, and the
spectroscope allows us to analyse the sun’s light and discover in the
solar atmosphere a multitude of metals and ingredients, in fusion.