Ivanhoe

CHAPTER XIII

1 (p. 144) epigraph: Misattributed to Homer’s Iliad, the passage nevertheless is strongly reminiscent of Pope’s translation and of the events of book 24, which describe the funeral games following the death of Patroclus. The actual source is a far more obscure eighteenth-century text, William Wilkie’s The Epigoniad 5.141-146.

2 (p. 145) attractions and antipathies: Pliny’s Natural History, an ancient text well known in the Middle Ages, explains specific natural phenomena, such as magnetic force, according to a principle of inherent attraction or antipathy between material objects.

3 (p. 146) myrrh … camphire: See the Bible, Song of Songs 1:13-14.