Penny Dreadfuls, 1812 · page 165 of 258
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# Page Analysis This is a **notes page** from a Victorian text, providing scholarly annotations and classical references for passages cited throughout the work. The visible text consists of footnotes keyed to three different page numbers, offering historical and mythological context. Page 75 notes that Biscayan sailors pioneered Greenland whale-fishery, citing Goldsmith's *Animated Nature*. Page 103 explains that Fauna (also called Bona Dea) was an ancient figure celebrated for purity and worshipped exclusively by women. Pages 109 entries reference classical mythology—Bellerophon and Peleus—with a Latin passage from Horace's *Ode* (vii, lib. iii), and mention Laodamia as Acastus's mourning daughter. The notes suggest the main text contains classical allusions and historical digressions typical of Victorian literary fiction.
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| ‘ Page 75. Thus on his bark the bold Biscayen stands, The whale-fishery, on the coast of Greenland, was first carried on by the sailors of the Bay of Biscay. : See Goldsmith's Animated Nature, Vol. VI Page 108, The mystic honours next of Fauna— Fauna, called also the Bona Dea, during her life was celebrated for the exemplary purity of her manners, and after death was worshipped. only by. women. ysis | ’ Page 109. Bellerophon, And Peleus flying the Magnesian piuin ; Ut Pretum mulier perfida credulum Falsis impulerit criminibus, nimis Casto Bellerophonti Maturare necem, refert, Narrat pene datum Pelea Tartaro, Magnessam Hyppolyten dum fugit abstinens. . Hor. Ode vii, lid, iii. Page 109. <Acastus’ mourning daughter— Laodamia, 0. ‘ connicloooks.comnn