{171}[199] [For "that most ancient military dance, the _Pyrrhica_," see _Travels_, by E.D. Clarke, 1814, part ii. sect. 11, p. 641; and for specimens of "Cadmean characters," _vide ibid._, p. 593.] [200] [After his birthplace Teos was taken by the Persians, B.C. 510, Anacreon migrated to Abdera, but afterwards lived at Samos, under the protection of Polycrates.] [da] _Which Hercules might deem his own._--[MS.] {172}[201] [See the translation of a speech delivered to the Pargiots, in 1815, by an aged citizen: "I exhort you well to consider, before you yield yourselves up to the English, that the King of England now has in his pay all the kings of Europe--obtaining money for this purpose from his merchants; whence, should it become advantageous to the merchants to sell you, in order to conciliate Ali, and obtain certain commercial advantages in his harbours, the _English will sell you to Ali._" --"Parga," _Edinburgh Review_, October, 1819. vol. 32, pp. 263-293. Here, perhaps, the "Franks" are the Russians. Compare-- "Greeks only should free Greece, Not the barbarian with his masque of peace." _The Age of Bronze_, lines 298, 299, _Poetical Works_, 1901, v. 557, note 1.] [202] Γενοίμαν, ἵν' ὑλᾶεν ἔπεστι πόν- [Greek: Genoi/man, i(/n' y(la~en e)/pesti po/n-] του πρόβλημ' ἁλίκλυστον, ἄ- [Greek: tou pro/blêm' a(li/klyston, a)/-] κραν ὑπὸ πλάκα Σουνίου, κ.τ.λ. [Greek: kran y(po\ pla/ka Souni/ou, k.t.l.] Sophocles, _Ajax_, lines 1190-1192.] {173}[203] [Compare-- "What poets feel not, when they make, A pleasure in creating, The world, in _its_ turn, will not take Pleasure in contemplating." Matthew Arnold (Motto to _Poems_, 1869, vol. i. Fly-leaf).] [204] [For this "sentence," see _Journal_, November 16, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii. 320, note 1; see, too, letter to Rogers, 1814, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 89, note 1.] [db] _In digging drains for a new water-closet._--[MS.] [205] [For Edmund Hoyle (1672-1769), see _English Bards, etc._, lines 966-968, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 372, note 4.] {174}[206] [William Coxe (1747-1828), Archdeacon of Wilts, a voluminous historian and biographer, published _Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough_, in 1817-1819.] [207] [See _Life of Milton, Works_ of Samuel Johnson, 1825, vii. pp. 67, 68, 80, _et vide ante_, p. 146, note 2.] [208] [According to Suetonius, the youthful Titus amused himself by copying handwriting, and boasted that he could have made a first-rate _falsarius_. One of Cæsar's "earliest acts" was to crucify some jovial pirates, who had kidnapped him, and with whom he pretended to be on pleasant if not friendly terms.] [209] [James Currie, M.D. (1756-1805), published, anonymously, the _Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his Life, etc._, in 1800.]