Volume 3 — ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. [240]
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ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. [240]
"Expende Annibalem:—quot libras in duce summo Invenies?"
Juvenal, [Lib. iv.] Sat. x. line 147. [241]
"The Emperor Nepos was acknowledged by the Senate, by the Italians, and by the Provincials of Gaul; his moral virtues, and military talents, were loudly celebrated; and those who derived any private benefit from his government announced in prophetic strains the restoration of the public felicity. * * By this shameful abdication, he protracted his life about five years, in a very ambiguous state, between an Emperor and an Exile, till!!!"—Gibbon's Decline and Fall, two vols. notes by Milman, i. 979.[242]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · {301} [ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. —— By —— London: Printed for J. Murray, Albemarle Street, By W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James'sNote 2 · [The quotation from Juvenal was added in Second Proof. "Produce the urn that Hannibal contains,
And weigh the mighty dust which yet remains;Note 3 · ["I send you ... an additional motto from Gibbon, which you will find singularly appropriate."—Letter to Murray, April 12, 1814, ibid., p. 6