[389] {336} [For "Lion," see Hobhouse's note iii. The "Horses of St. Mark" (_vide post_, stanza xiii. line 1), which, according to history or legend, Augustus "conveyed" from Alexandria to Rome, Constantine from Rome to Constantinople, Dandolo, in 1204, from Constantinople to Venice, Napoleon, in 1797, from Venice to Paris, and which were restored to the Venetians by the Austrians in 1815, were at one time supposed to belong to the school of Lysippus. Haydon, who published, in 1817, a curious etching of "The Elgin Horse's Head," placed side by side with the "Head of one of the Horses ... now at Venice," subscribes the following critical note: "It is astonishing that the great principles of nature should have been so nearly lost in the time between Phidias and Lysippus. Compare these two heads. The Elgin head is all truth, the other all manner." Hobhouse pronounces the "Horses" to be "irrevocably Chian," but modern archæologists regard both "school" and exact period as uncertain.] [ln] _Even on the pillar_----.--[MS. M., D. erased.] [390] [According to Milman (_Hist. of Lat. Christianity_, v. 144), the humiliation of Barbarossa at the Church of St. Mark took place on Tuesday, July 24, 1177. _À propos_ of the return of the Pope and Emperor to the ducal palace, he quotes "a curious passage from a newly recovered poem, by Godfrey of Viterbo, an attendant on the Emperor. So great was the press in the market that the aged Pope was thrown down-- "Jam Papa perisset in arto, Cæsar ibi vetulum ni relevasset eum." "This," he remarks, "is an odd contrast of real life with romance."] [391] {337} ["Oh, for one hour of Dundee!" was the exclamation of a Highland chieftain at the battle of Sheriff-muir, November 13, 1715 (Scott's _Tales of a Grandfather_, III. Series, chap. x.; _Prose Works_, Paris, 1830, vii. 768). Wordsworth makes the words his own in the sonnet, "In the Pass of Killicranky (an Invasion being expected, October, 1803)" (_Works_, 1888, p. 201)-- "O for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave!" And Coleridge, in a letter to Wordsworth (February 8, 1804), thinking, perhaps, less of the chieftain than the sonnet, exclaims, "'Oh for one hour of Dundee!' How often shall I sigh, 'Oh for one hour of _The Recluse!_'"--an aspiration which Byron would have worded differently.] [lo] ----_who quelled the imperial foe_.--[MS. M. erased.] ----_empire's all-conquering foe_.--[MS. M.] [392] [Compare _Marino Faliero_, act iv. sc. 2, lines 157, 158-- "Doge Dandolo survived to ninety summers, To vanquish empires, and refuse their crown."