t least with
regard to Hannibal: but in the statistical account of Scotland, I find
that Sir John Paterson had the curiosity to collect and weigh the ashes
of a person discovered a few years since in the parish of Eccles....
Wonderful to relate, he found the whole did not exceed in weight one
ounce and a half! And is This All? Alas! the _quot libras_ itself is a
satirical exaggeration."--Gifford's _Translation of Juvenal_ (ed. 1817),
ii. 26, 27.

The motto, "Expende--Quot Libras In Duce Summo Invenies," was inscribed
on one side of the silver urn presented by Byron to Walter Scott in
April, 1815. (See _Letters_, 1899, iii. 414, Appendix IV.)]

[242] ["I send you ... an additional motto from Gibbon, which you will
find _singularly appropriate_."--Letter to Murray, April 12, 1814,
_ibid._, p. 68.]

[243] {305} ["I don't know--but I think _I_, even _I_ (an insect
compared with this creature), have set my life on casts not a millionth
part of this man's. But, after all, a crown may not be worth dying for.
Yet, to outlive _Lodi_ for this!!! Oh that Juvenal or Johnson could rise
from the dead! 'Expende--quot libras in duce summo invenies?' I knew
they were light in the balance of mortality; but I thought their living
dust weighed more _carats_. Alas! this imperial diamond hath a flaw in
it, and is now hardly fit to stick in a glazier's pencil;--the pen of
the historian won't rate it worth a ducat. Psha! 'something too much of
this.' But I won't give him up even now; though all his admirers have,
'like the thanes, fallen from him.'"--_Journal_, April 9, 1814,
_Letters_, 1898, ii. 409.]

[244] [Compare "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning!"--_Isaiah_ xiv. 12.]

[245] {306} [Stanzas ii. and iii. were added in Proof iv.]

[246] [A "spell" may be broken, but it is difficult to understand how,
like the two halves of a seal or amulet, a broken spell can "unite
again."]

[247] "Certaminis _gaudia_"--the expression of Attila in his harangue to
his army, previous to the battle of Chalons, given in Cassiodorus.
["Nisi ad certaminis hujus gaudia praeparasset."--_Attilae Oratio ad
Hunnos_, caput xxxix., _Appendix ad Opera Cassiodori_, Migne, lxix.
1279.]

[248] {307} [Added in Proof v.]

[249] [The first four lines of stanza v. were quoted by "Mr. Miller in
the House of Representatives of the United States," in a debate on the
Militia Draft Bill (_Weekly Messenger_, Boston, February 10, 1815).
"Take