56.----'lands and main.' 81. 'Her helm was deep indented and her lance.' 94. 'Seek'st thou the cause? O mortal, look around.' 102. 'That Hadrian----' 116. 'The last base brute----' 143. 'Ten thousand schemes of petulance and pride.' 152. '----victors o'er the grave.' 162. '----Time shall tell the rest.' 199. 'Loath'd throughout life--scarce pardon'd in the dust.' 203. 'Erostratus and Elgin, etc.' 206. '----viler than the first. 222. 'Shall shake your usurpation to its base.' 233. 'While Lusitania----' 273. 'Then in the Senates----' 290. '----decorate his fall.' The following variants may also be noted:-- Line. Variant. Publisher 1. 'Slow sinks now lovely, etc.' Hone 110. 'The Gothic monarch and the British----.' Wilson '----and his fit compeer.' 131. 'And well I know within that murky land. ... Dispatched her reckoning children far and wide. Hone And well I know, albeit afar, the land, Where starving Avarice keeps her chosen band; Or sends their hungry numbers eager forth. ... And aye accursed, etc.' Wilson INTRODUCTION TO _THE CURSE OF MINERVA_ 'The Curse of Minerva', which was written at Athens, and is dated March 17, 1811, remained unpublished, as a whole, in this country, during Byron's life-time. The arrangement which had been made with Cawthorn, to bring out a fifth edition of 'English Bards', included the issue of a separate volume, containing 'Hints from Horace' and 'The Curse of Minerva;' and, as Moore intimates, it was the withdrawal of the latter, in deference to the wishes of Lord Elgin or his connections, which led to the suppression of the other satires.