Book II

, Fable XIV, Explanation” (appended to most Fables).

Hyphenization is inconsistent--for example, the forms “sea monster” and “sea-monster” both occur--and is not marked unless one form is clearly anomalous. Errors and omissions in Greek diacritical marks have been silently corrected.

VIII.I he ordered the halsers of the fleet to be loosened [_variant spelling of “hawsers”_] VIII.II FABLE II. [FABLE VI.] They immediately sent ambassadors [ambasssadors] VIII.V and do not trust thyself [_invisible h_] IX.II Fn. 22: _Branching holm oak._ [_body text has “holm-oak”_] IX.V (if I could {only} recall what has been destined) [recal] X.I for the newmade bride [_elsewhere “new-made” with hyphen_] Exp.: Orpheus, too, is supposed to have [to] X.VIII Fn. 43: Clarke translates it ‘Coysts,’ [_Clarke (1752) has “costys”, but this is hardly less obscure._] Fn. 48: whether the festival [_invisible e in “the”_] X.IX FABLE IX. [FABLE VI.] XI.III with the steel {scissars}, [_attested variant spelling_] XI.VI Fn. 31: _The Magnetes._ [Magnete] XII.III, IV Fn. 38: the two-fold form of the Centaurs [_elsewhere “twofold” without hyphen_] XII.V, VI thou shouldst have a forgetfulness [forgetfuless] XIII.I FABLE I. [_error for “FABLES I. AND II.”?_] who could better succeed the great Achilles [succed] XIII.III, IV Exp. Le Clerc considers him [consideres] XIII.V, VII Fn. 64: from the Greek word [work] XIII.VII the hatred of the Cyclop [Cylop] XIV.II Exp. An aged woman presented to Tarquinius Superbus three books [_text unchanged: error for “nine books”_] XIV.V they attended our footsteps [foosteps] XIV.VI Fn. 28: so called from the whiteness [ths] XIV.X Exp. The story of the heron [_invisible y_] XIV.XII, XIII Fn. 59: the apartments on the ground floor [grouud] XV.II, III If any thing is noxious, [_word “If” missing at line-beginning (Latin “siqua nocent”)_] XV.II, III and her agreable food [_spelling unchanged_] Fn. 10: _The goat is led._ [_body text has “was led”_] Fn. 13: _The line-endings of this footnote are missing, apparently through printing error. Reconstructed words are shown in {braces}. The word given as “then” might be “also” or any word of similar length:_ ... was an athlete of such stren{gth} ... with a blow of his fist, and {then} ... and afterwards to devour it. {His} [_page break in footnote: remainder is clear_] Fn. 31: ... See