[222] {187} [Byron and Hobhouse visited Marathon, January 25, 1810. The unconsidered trifle of the "plain" must have been offered to Byron during his second residence at Athens, in 1811.] [223] ["Expende Annibalem--quot libras," etc. (Juvenal, x. 147), is the motto of the _Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte_, which was written April 10, 1814.--_Journal_, 1814; _Life_, p. 325.] [224] [Compare letter to Hodgson, September 25, 1811: _Letters_, 1898, ii. 45.] [225] [Miss Owenson (Sydney, Lady Morgan), 1783-1859, published her _Woman, or Ida of Athens_, in 4 vols., in 1812. Writing to Murray, February 20, 1818, Byron alludes to the "cruel work" which an article (attributed to Croker but, probably, written by Hookham Frere) had made with her _France_ in the _Quarterly Review_ (vol. xvii. p. 260); and in a note to _The Two Foscari_, act iii. sc. 1, he points out that his description of Venice as an "Ocean-Rome" had been anticipated by Lady Morgan in her "fearless and excellent work upon Italy." The play was completed July 9, 1821, but the work containing the phrase, "Rome of the Ocean," had not been received till August 16 (see, too, his letter to Murray, August 23, 1821). His conviction of the excellence of Lady Morgan's work was, perhaps strengthened by her outspoken eulogium.] [226] {188} [For the Disdar's extortions, see _Travels in Albania_, i. 244.] [227] ["The poor ...when once abroad, Grow sick, and damn the climate like a lord." Pope, _Imit. of Horace_, Ep. 1, lines 159, 160.] [228] [_Works and Days_, v. 493, _et seq.; Hesiod. Carm._, C. Goettlingius (1843), p. 215.] [229] Nonsense; humbug. [230] {189} [Hobhouse pronounced it to be the Fountain of Ares, the Paraporti Spring, "which serves to swell the scanty waters of the Dirce." The Dirce flows on the west; the Ismenus, which forms the fountain, to the east of Thebes. "The water was tepid, as I found by bathing in it" (_Travels in Albania_, i. 233; _Handbook for Greece_, p. 703).] [231] [_Travels in Greece_, ch. lxvii.] [232] [Gell's _Itinerary of Greece_ (1810), Preface, p. xi.] [233] {190} [For M. Roque, see _Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem: Oeuvres Chateaubriand_, Paris, 1837, ii. 258-266.] [234] {191} [William Eton published (1798-1809) _A Survey of the Turkish Empire_, in which he advocated the cause of Greek independence. Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), another ardent phil-Hellenist, published his _Voyage en Grèce et en Turquie_ in 1801.] [235] [Cornelius de Pauw (1739-1799), Dutch historian, published, in 1787, _Recherches philosophiques sur les Grecs_. Byron reflects upon his paradoxes and superficiality in Note II., _infra_. Thomas Thornton published, in 1807, a work entitled _Present State of Turkey_ (see Note II., _infra_).]