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The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P.

Note 3 — BOOK IV.

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—Page 256, stanza xiv.

In Luna's gulf, the sea-beat crews carouse.

Luna, a trading town on the gulf of Spezia, said to have been founded by the Etrurian Tarchun.—See Strabo, lib. v.; Cat. Orig. xxv. In a fragment of Ennius, Luna is mentioned. In Lucan's time it was deserted, "desertæ mœnia Lunæ."—Luc. i. 586.

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