[1] Aspasia, vide Plutarch’s Life of Pericles.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid. Phidias was supposed to have stolen some public gold, with the connivance of Pericles, for the embellishment of the statue of Minerva.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Worn by the popes.
[6] Madame de Maintenon.
[7] Duchess of Marlborough.
[8] Madame de Pompadour.
[9] The League of Cambray, comprehending the Emperor, the King of France, the King of Aragon, and most of the Italian princes and states.
[10] The Duke of Marlborough.
[11] Vide Principes des Négociations par l’Abbé de Mably.