Note 99 — JOHN SOBIESKI. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Yet, when shortly afterwards an official at court was presented with a sword of Sobieski, the interest excited was intense, and engravings were taken of it. Salvandy (ii. 420) says that the sword of Sobieski was the cherished possession of Napoleon at St. Helena. A French prelate was author of the witty distich:
Dignior imperio numne Austrius? anne Polonus? Odrysias acies hic fugat, ille fugit.