Antique_, par Olivier
Rayet, Paris, 1884, Livraison II, Planche 7.)]

[468] [The Roman "things" whom the world feared, set the fashion of
shedding their blood in the pursuit of glory. The nations, of modern
Europe, "bastard" Romans, have followed their example.]

[469] {397} [Compare _The Age of Bronze_, v.--"The king of kings, and
yet of slaves the slave."]

[470] [In _Comparison of the Present State of France with that of Rome_,
etc., published in the _Morning Post_, September 21, 1802, Coleridge
speaks of Buonaparte as the "new Caesar," but qualifies the expression in
a note: "But if reserve, if darkness, if the employment of spies and
informers, if an indifference to all religions, except as instruments of
state policy, with a certain strange and dark superstition respecting
fate, a blind confidence in his destinies,--if these be any part of the
Chief Consul's character, they would force upon us, even against our
will, the name and history of Tiberius."--_Essays on His Own Times_, ii.
481.]

[471] [According to Suetonius, i. 37, the famous words, _Veni Vidi,
Vici_, were blazoned on litters in the triumphal procession which
celebrated Caesar's victory over Pharnaces II., after the battle of Zela
(B.C. 47).]

[472] {398} [By "flee" in the "Gallic van," Byron means "fly towards,
not away from, the foe." He was, perhaps, thinking of the Biblical
phrases, "flee like a bird" (_Ps_. xi. 1), and "flee upon horses"
(_Isa_. xxx. 16); but he was not careful to "tame down" words to his own
use and purpose.]

[nt] _Of pettier passions which raged angrily_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[nu] _At what? can he reply? his lusting is unnamed_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[nv] ----_How oft--how long, oh God!_--[MS. M. erased.]

[473] {399} ----"Omnes poene veteres; qui nihil cognosci, nihil percipi,
nihil sciri posse dixerunt; augustos sensus, imbecillos animos, brevia
curricula vitar, et (ut Democritus) in profundo veritatem esse demersam;
opinionibus et institutis omnia teneri; nihil veritati relinqui:
deinceps omnia tenebris circumfusa esse dixerunt."--_Academ._, lib. I.
cap. 12. The eighteen hundred years which have elapsed since Cicero
wrote this, have not removed any of the imperfections of humanity: and
the complaints of the ancient philosophers may, without injustice or
affectation, be transcribed in a poem written yesterday.

[474] [Compare Gray's _Elegy_, stanza xv.--

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfa