As in the old time, till the hour be come When Truth shall strike their eyes through many a tear, And make them own the Prophet in his tomb. Ravenna, 1819. FOOTNOTES: [276] {241}[Compare-- "He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime." Milton, _Lycidas_, line 11.] [277] [By "Runic" Byron means "Northern," "Anglo-Saxon."] [278] [Compare "In that word, beautiful in all languages, but most so in yours--_Amor mio_--is comprised my existence here and hereafter."--Letter of Byron to the Countess Guiccioli, August 25, 1819, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 350. Compare, too, _Beppo_, stanza xliv.; _vide ante_, p. 173.] [279] {243}[Compare-- "I pass each day where Dante's bones are laid: A little cupola more neat than solemn, Protects his dust." _Don Juan_, Canto IV. stanza civ. lines 1-3.] [280] [The _Cassandra_ or _Alexandra_ of Lycophron, one of the seven "Pleiades" who adorned the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus (third century B.C.), is "an iambic monologue of 1474 verses, in which Cassandra is made to prophesy the fall of Troy ... with numerous other historical events, ... ending with [the reign of] Alexandra the Great." Byron had probably read a translation of the _Cassandra_ by Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (born 1784, wrecked in the _Agatha_ off Memel, April 7, 1808), which was issued at Cambridge in 1806. The _Alexandra_ forms part of the _Bibliotheca Teubneriana_ (ed. G. Kinkel, Lipsiæ, 1880). For the prophecy of Nereus, _vide_ Hor., _Odes_, lib. i. c. xv.] [281] {244}[In the notes to his _Essay on Epic Poetry_, 1782 (Epistle iii. pp. 175-197), Hayley (see _English Bards, etc._, line 310, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 321, note 1) prints a translation of the three first cantos of the _Inferno_, which, he says (p. 172), was written "a few years ago to oblige a particular friend." "Of all Hayley's compositions," writes Southey (_Quart. Rev._, vol. xxxi. pp. 283, 284), "these specimens are the best ... in thus following his original Hayley was led into a sobriety and manliness of diction which ... approached ... to the manner of a better age." In a note on the Hall of Eblis, S. Henley quotes with approbation Hayley's translation of lines 1-9 of this Third Canto of the _Inferno_. _Vathek_ ... by W. Beckford, 1868, p. 188.] [282] [_L'Italia_: _Canto IV. del Pellegrinaggio di Childe Harold_ ... tradotto da Michele Leoni, Italia (London?), 1819, 8º. Leoni also translated the _Lament of Tasso_ (_Lamento di Tasso_ ... Recato in Italiano da M. Leoni, Pisa, 1818).] [283] [Alfieri has a sonnet on the tomb of Dante, beginning-- "O gran padre Alighier, se dal ciel miri." _Opere Scelle_, di Vittorio Alfieri, 1818, iii. 487.]