" See _On the Study of Celtic Literature and on
Translating Homer_, ed. 1895, pp. 264-69.
[11] ~Orestes, or Merope, or Alcmaeon~. The story of ~Orestes~ was
dramatized by AEschylus, by Sophocles, and by Euripides. Merope was the
subject of a lost tragedy by Euripides and of several modern plays,
including one by Matthew Arnold himself. The story of ~Alcmaeon~ was the
subject of several tragedies which have not been preserved.
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[12] ~Polybius~. A Greek historian (c. 204-122 B.C.)
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[13]. ~Menander~. See _Contribution of the Celts, Selections_, Note 3,
p. 177.[Transcriber's note: this is Footnote 255 in this e-text.]
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[14] ~rien a dire~. He says all that he wishes to, but unfortunately he
has nothing to say.
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[15] Boccaccio's _Decameron_, 4th day, 5th novel.
[16] ~Henry Hallam~ (1777-1859). English historian. See his
_Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries_, chap. 23, Sec.Sec. 51, 52.
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[17] ~Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot~ (1787-1874), historian, orator,
and statesman of France.
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