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NOTES
- Gala is the Greek word for milk, hence Galaxy for the Milky Way.
- Chapter 18 in the Phillips manuscript of Caxton's translation now at Magdalene Col-
lege, Cambridge. Transcribed from the facsimile edition published by G. Braziller (New
York, 1968).
- Taken from Recuyell, ed. H. Oskar Sommer (London: D. Nutt, 1894), p. 604.
- For the transmission of Greek and Latin literature, see L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wil-
son, Scribes and Scholars, 3d ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991). Chapter 4 is
valuable for the revival of Greek studies.
