or, in the case of the Sultan, for an
apparitor. The French spelling points to D'Ohsson as Byron's authority.]

[gd] {177} _Be silent thou_.--[MS.]

[ge] {178} _Nov_. 9^th^ 1813.--[MS.]

[152] [_Vide_ Ovid, _Heroides,_ Ep. xix.; and the _De Herone atque
Leandro_ of Musaeus.]

[153] {179} The wrangling about this epithet, "the broad Hellespont" or
the "boundless Hellespont," whether it means one or the other, or what
it means at all, has been beyond all possibility of detail. I have even
heard it disputed on the spot; and not foreseeing a speedy conclusion to
the controversy, amused myself with swimming across it in the mean time;
and probably may again, before the point is settled. Indeed, the
question as to the truth of "the tale of Troy divine" still continues,
much of it resting upon the talismanic word[Greek: "a)/peiros:"]
probably Homer had the same notion of distance that a coquette has of
time; and when he talks of boundless, means half a mile; as the latter,
by a like figure, when she says _eternal_ attachment, simply specifies
three weeks.

[For a defence of the Homeric[Greek: a)pei/ron,] and for a _resume_ of
the "wrangling" of the topographers, Jean Baptiste Le Chevalier
(1752-1836) and Jacob Bryant (1715-1804), etc., see _Travels in
Albania,_ 1858, ii. 179-185.]

[154] {180} Before his Persian invasion, and crowned the altar with
laurel, etc. He was afterwards imitated by Caracalla in his race. It is
believed that the last also poisoned a friend, named Festus, for the
sake of new Patroclan games. I have seen the sheep feeding on the tombs
of AEyietes and Antilochus: the first is in the centre of the plain.

[Alexander placed a garland on the tomb of Achilles, and "went through
the ceremony of anointing himself with oil, and running naked up to
it."--Plut. _Vitae_, "Alexander M.," cap. xv. line 25, Lipsiae, 1814, vi.
187. For the tombs of AEsyetes, etc., see _Travels in Albania, ii.
149-151._]

[155] [Compare--

"Or narrow if needs must be,
Outside are the storms and the strangers."

_Never the Time, etc.,_ lines 19, 20, by Robert Browning.]

[156] {181} When rubbed, the amber is susceptible of a perfume, which is
slight, but _not_ disagreeable. [Letter to Murray, December 6, 1813,
_Letters_, 1898, ii. 300.]

[157] ["Coeterum castitatis hieroglyphicum gemma est."--Hoffmann,
_Lexic. Univ._, art. "Smaragdus." Compare, too, _Lalla Rookh_ ("Chandos
Classics," p. 406), "The emerald's virgin