^{page 70 note a} Alsarius de Fascino. Antiq. Roman, a Grævio, tom. xii. p. 885. Potter Archaeol. Græca. lip. ii. cap. 18.

^{page 71 note a} I am indebted for this information respecting the prevalence of the superstition of the evil eye in Greece to my friend Mr. Dodwell.

^{page 71 note b} Ως μὴ Βασκανθῶ δὲ τρις ἐμὸν ἔπτυσα κολπον. Theocr. Idyl. vi. v. 39.

^{page 71 note c} Turre, Monum. Vet. Antii Roma 1700, p. 157, and Visconti Museo Pio-clementino, tom. vii. p. 10.

^{page 72 note a} Aeschylus. Prometheus, v. 794.

^{page 72 note b} The γοργόνειον was placed in the temple of Minerva Polias at Athens. Eustat. in Homer. Iliad, p. 1704, l. 32.

^{page 72 note c} Ion. v. 225.

^{page 72 note d} Numi Vet. Anecdoti, p. 12, et seqq.

^{page 72 note e} Millingen. Vases de Sir John Coghill, p. 14.

^{page 73 note a} Monumenti Inediti, tom. ii. p. 26.

^{page 73 note b} Hist. Nat. lib. xxviii. cap. 5.

^{page 73 note c} Hesiod.

^{page 73 note d} Monumenti Inediti, tom. ii. p. 32.

^{page 73 note e} Description of Antient Terra-cottas, pl. xvi. p. 27.

^{page 73 note f} The fig was particularly held sacred to Bacchus. A vessel of wine and a basket of figs were in early times the rewards for Comedy. Plutarch de Divit.

^{page 73 note g} Aristophanes, Ranæ v. 307.