Chloe: a fanciful name. No real person is meant.
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71' The figure of Jove weighing the issue of a battle in his scales is foundin the 'Iliad', VIII, 69-73. Milton imitated it in 'Paradise Lost', IX,996-1004. When the men's wits mounted it showed that they were lighter,less important, than the lady's hair, and so were destined to lose thebattle. '89-96' This pedigree of Belinda's bodkin is a parody of Homer's account ofAgamemnon's scepter ('Iliad', II, 100-108). '105-106' In Shakespeare's play Othello fiercely demands to see a handkerchiefwhich he has given his wife, and takes her inability to show it to himas a proof of her infidelity. '113' the lunar sphere: it was an old superstition that everything lost onearth went to the moon. An Italian poet, Ariosto, uses this notion in apoem with which Pope was familiar ('Orlando Furioso', Canto XXXIV), andfrom which he borrowed some of his ideas for the cave of Spleen. '122' Why does Pope include "tomes of casuistry" in this collection? '125' There was a legend that Romulus never died, but had been caught up tothe skies in a storm. Proculus, a Roman senator, said that Romulus haddescended from heaven and spoken to him and then ascended again (Livy,I, 16). '129' Berenice's Locks: Berenice was an Egyptian queen who dedicated a lock of hair for herhusband's safe return from war. It was said afterward to have become aconstellation, and a Greek poet wrote some verses on the marvel. '132'
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