"By her example warn'd, the rest beware; More easy, less imperious, were the fair; And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind." Dryden's _Theodore and Honoria_ (_sub fine_).] [226] Εσπερε παντα φερεις [Greek: Espere panta phereis] Φερεις οινον--φερεις αιγα, [Greek: Phereis oinon--phereis aiga,] Φερεις ματερι παιδα. [Greek: Phereis materi paida.] _Fragment of Sappho._ [Ϝέσπερε, πάντα φέρων, ὅσα φαίνολις ἐσκέδασ' αὔως· [Greek: We/spere, pa/nta phe/rôn, o(/sa phai/nolis e)ske/das' au)/ôs] Φέρεις οἴν φέρεις αἶγα, Φέρεις ἄπυ ματέρι παῖδα. [Greek: Phe/reis oi)/n phe/reis ai~)ga, Phe/reis a)/py mate/ri pai~da.] _Sappho_, Memoir, Text, by Henry Thornton Wharton, 1895, p. 136. "Evening, all things thou bringest Which dawn spread apart from each other; The lamb and the kid thou bringest, Thou bringest the boy to his mother." J.A. Symonds. Compare Tennyson's _Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After_--"Hesper, whom the poet call'd the Bringer home of all good things."] {181}[227] "Era già l'ora che volge il disio Ai naviganti, e intenerisce il cuore; Lo di ch' han detto ai dolci amici addio; E che lo nuovo peregrin' damore Punge, se ode squilla di lontano, Che paia il giorno pianger che si more." Dante's _Purgatory_, canto viii., lines 1-6. This last line is the first of Gray's Elegy, taken by him without acknowledgment. [228] See Suetonius for this fact. ["The public joy was so great upon the occasion of his death, that the common people ran up and down with caps upon their heads. And yet there were some, who for a long time trimmed up his tomb with spring and summer flowers, and, one while, placed his image upon his rostra dressed up in state robes, another while published proclamations in his name, as if he was yet alive, and would shortly come to Rome again, with a vengeance to all his enemies."--_De XII. Cæs._, lib. vi. cap. lvii.] [dg] _But I'm digressing--what on earth have Nero And Wordsworth--both poetical buffoons, etc._--[MS.] {182}[229] [See _De Poeticâ_, cap. xxiv. See, too, the Preface to Dryden's "Dedication" of the _Æneis_ (_Works_ of John Dryden, 1821, xiv. 130-134). Dryden is said to have derived his knowledge of Aristotle from Dacier's translation, and it is probable that Byron derived his from Dryden. See letter to Hodgson (_Letters_, 1891, v. 284), in which he quotes Aristotle as quoted in Johnson's _Life of Dryden_.] CANTO THE FOURTH. I.