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Sardanapalus,; A Tragedy. ; the Two Foscari, a Tragedy. ; Cain, a Mystery
Sardanapalus A Tragedy the Two Foscari a Tragedy Cain a Mystery Author:Baron George Gordon Byron Byron General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1821 Original Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle-Street [printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars] Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish... more », Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES. Note 1, page 7, line 2 from bottom. And thou, my otvn Ionian Myrrha. " The Ionian name had been still more comprehensive, having included the Achaians and the Boeotians, who, together with those to whom it was afterwards confined, would make nearly the whole of the Greek nation, and among the orientals it was always the general name for the Greeks." -- Mitford't Greece, vol. i. p. 199. Note 2, page 20, lines 21 to 24. " Sardanapalus " The king, and son of Anacyndaraxes, " In one day built Anchialus and Tarsus. " Eat, drink, and love ; the rest's not worth ajlllip." " For this expedition he took only a small chosen body of the phalanx, but all his light troops. In the first day's march he reached Anchialus, a town said to have been founded by the king of Assyria, Sardanapalus. The fortifications, in their magnitude and extent, still in Arrian's time, bore the character of greatness. which the AssVrians appear singu- l. irly to have aft'ected in works of the kind. A monument representing Sardanapalus was found there, warranted by an inscription in Assyrian characters, of course in the old Assyrian language, which the Greeks, whether well or ill, interpreted thus : " Sardanapalus, son of Ahacyndaraxes, in one day founded Anchialus and Tarsus. Eat, drink, play : all other human joys are not worth a fillip." Supposing...« less