Note 235 — CANTO THE FOURTH.
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[See Herodotus (Cleobis and Biton), i. 31. The sentiment is in a fragment of Menander. Ὅν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνήσκει νέος or Ὅν γὰρ φιλεῖ θεὸς ἀποθνήσκει νέος.
Menandri at Philomenis reliquiæ, edidit Augustus Meineke, p. 48.
See Letters, 1898, ii. 22, note 1. Byron applied the saying to Allegra in a letter to Sir Walter Scott, dated May 4, 1822, Letters, 1901, vi. 57.]