NOTES
TO
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.
CANTO III.
1.
In "pride of place" here last the Eagle flew.
Stanza xviii. line 5.
Pride of place" is a term of falconry, and means the highest pitch of flight. See Macbeth, etc.—
"An eagle towering in his pride of place
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and killed."
["A falcon towering in her pride of place," etc.
Macbeth, act ii. sc. 4, line 12.]
2.
Such as Harmodius drew on Athens' tyrant Lord.
Stanza xx. line 9.
See the famous song on Harmodius and Aristogeiton. The best English translation is in Bland's Anthology, by Mr. Denman—
"With myrtle my sword will I wreathe," etc.
[Translations chiefly from the Greek Anthology, etc., 1806, pp. 24, 25. The Scholium, attributed to Callistratus (Poetæ Lyrici Græci, Bergk. Lipsiæ, 1866, p. 1290), begins thus—
