But what Alcibiades did, or what happened to him, this is particular
truth."

{36} Justinus, who lived in the second century, made an epitome of
the history of the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Macedonian, and Roman
Empires, from Trogus Pompeius, who lived in the time of Augustus.

{37} Dares Phrygius was supposed to have been a priest of Vulcan,
who was in Troy during the siege, and the Phrygian Iliad ascribed to
him as early as the time of AElian, A.D. 230, was supposed,
therefore, to be older than Homer's.

{38} Quintus Curtius, a Roman historian of uncertain date, who
wrote the history of Alexander the Great in ten books, of which two
are lost and others defective.

{39} Not knowledge but practice.

{40} The Poet Monarch of all Human Sciences.

{41} In "Love's Labour's Lost" a resemblance has been fancied
between this passage and Rosalind's description of Biron, and the
jest:-

"Which his fair tongue--conceit's expositor -
Delivers in such apt and gracious words,
That aged ears play truant at his tables,
And younger hearings are quite ravished,
So sweet and voluble is his discourse."