1 gear business

3–4 On, of here used interchangeably to mean ‘because of’

5 abused deceived

8 scald scurvy, low

10 Aurora goddess of the dawn

15 pitched O2–3, Q (pitch O1)

18 straight immediately

27 false betray

31 Albania in Ortelius’ atlas, the district lying along the west coast of the Caspian

35 spials spies

40 champion plains stretches of level grassland

47–8 Cadmus sowed the earth with dragons’ teeth from which sprang armed men who began to fight one another.

54 toy trifling pastime