This poem on Apollo and Daphne is adapted from Greek mythology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem dealing with Apollo and Daphne has been modified by Finlay to signify that Apollo is the revolutionary and Daphne the French republic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also listed as "Ovid: Metamorphoses Book I, Fable XII."

Finlay comments on the verso of this card that the text moves from the plain (or Doric) tree-bark to the Baoque via the elaborate barque or three-masted sailing ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There are two other cards by Finlay with the same title, held by the Sackner Archive. In this print, the image is a calligraphic rendering of the title by Nash. Finlay remarks, "A permissable (mis)translation expands the suggestiveness of the German and evokes a range of associations with classical antiquity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The names are a mixture of the Apostles and leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poem was adapted from Ovid's "The Metamorphosis." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The definitions are taken from quotations in the classic literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.