[16] [The first edition reads "grantor." In the MS. the word may be either "granter" or "grantor." "Grantor" is a technical term, in law, for one "who grants a conveyance."] [17] {50}[According to Ælian, _Var. Hist._, vii. i, Semiramis, having obtained from her husband permission to rule over Asia for five days, thrust him into a dungeon, and obtained the sovereign power for herself (ed. Paris, 1858, p. 355).] [o] {52} _Aye--that's earnest!_--[MS. M. erased.] [p] {54} _Nay, if thou wilt not_----.--[MS. M. erased.] [q] {56} _Nor silent Baal, our imaged deity_, _Although his marble face looks frowningly_, _As the dusk shadows of the evening cast_ _His trow in coming dimness and at times_.--[MS. M. erased.] [r] / _a wide-spread_ \ _In distant flashes_ < _tempest_ > --[MS. M erased] \ _the approaching_ / [s] _As from the Gods to augur_.--[MS. M. erased.] [t] {58} _The weaker merit of our Asian women_.--[MS. M. erased.] [u] _Rather than prove that love to you in griefs_.--[MS. M. erased.] [v] {60} _Worshippers in the air_.--[MS. M. erased.] [18] {61}[Perhaps Grillparzer's _Sappho_ was responsible for the anachronism. See "Extracts from a Diary," January 12, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, V. 171, note 1.] [19] {63}["In the third act, when Sardanapalus calls for a _mirror_ to look at himself in his _armour_, recollect to quote the Latin passage from _Juvenal_ upon Otho (a similar character, who did the same thing: Gifford will help you to it). The trait is, perhaps, too familiar, but it is historical (of Otho, at least), and natural in an effeminate character."--Letter to Murray, May 30, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 301. The quotation was not made in the first edition, 1821, nor in any subsequent issue, till 1832. It is from Juvenal, _Sat._ ii. lines 199-203-- "Ille tenet speculum, pathici gestamen Othonis, Actoris Aurunci spolium, quo se ille videbat Armatum, cum jam tolli vexilla juberet. Res memoranda novis annalibus, atque recenti Historia, speculum civilis sarcina belli." "This grasps a mirror--pathic Otho's boast (Auruncan Actor's spoil), where, while his host, With shouts, the signal of the fight required, He viewed his mailed form; viewed, and admired! Lo, a new subject for the historic page, A MIRROR, midst the arms of civil rage!" Gifford.] [w] {66} ----_and his own helmet_.--[MS. M. erased.] [x] {68} _We'll die where we were raised_----.--[MS. M. erased.] [y] {70} _Tortured because his mind is tortured_.--[MS. M. erased.] [z] _He ever such an order_----.--[MS. M. erased.] _He ever had that order_----.--[MS. M. erased.]