A collection of the most remarkable tales connected with the history and exploits of gods and heroes. A few incidents derived from sources now no longer accessible may be gathered here and there from this generally worthless compilation; but the attempts to rationalise the legends are characterised by the wildest extravagance, while the Greek etymologies of proper names are perfect portents of folly or ignorance.

A glossary, as the name imports, of obsolete words and phrases. It is very short, and almost entirely without value, for many of the passages which profess to be quotations from ancient authorities are ascribed to writers and works which no one ever heard of, and are universally regarded as impudent fabrications.

, a title which means, that is to say, of the esoteric truths allegorically convcyed in the Virgilian poems. The absurdity of this piece is so glaring, that, had it been composed in a different age, we should have at once pronounced it to be a tedious and exaggerated burlesque. To take a single example. The Aeneid is supposed to shadow forth the career of man, as he passes upwards through the weakness of infancy and the waywardness of youth to wisdom and happiness. Now we are told that Anchises died and was buried at Drepanum. But δρέπανον or δρέπανος is quasi δριμύπαιδος : δριμύς means harsh, παῖς means a boy, therefore the interment of Anchises by his son covertly expresses that the harshness of youth casts aside paternal restraint.