"now called Damascus" the suggestion is that Damascus now stands where Eden once was.
The Warning the moral "Don't tell your wife any secrets" differs significantly from the usual references to fortune in the other tragedies.
Centaurs, Cerberus, Busiris, Achelous, Cacus, and Antacus all part of the Labors of Hercules.
Trophee a prophet of the Chaldee.
Nessus a centaur slain by Hercules.
Odenatus the ruler of Palmyra.
Shapur king of Persia.
Aurelian (Aurelianus) emperor of Rome, preceded by Gallienus.
King Peter of Spain; King Peter of Cyprus; Bernabo Visconti of Lombardy; Count Ugolino of Pisa figures who relied on fortune and were betrayed, killed, or starved.
Alexander the representative of the ideal for the medieval person.
Brutus Cassius Chaucer erroneously supposes these two famous assassins of Julius Caesar to be one person, not two.
Croesus the king of Lydia who depended too strongly upon fortune.
