\
_Noble Venetians!
_Noble Venetians!
Byron
30, 31.
]
[456] {440}[Gelo is quoted as the type of a successful and beneficent
tyrant held in honour by all posterity; Thrasybulus as a consistent
advocate and successful champion of democracy. ]
[457] [The lines from "I would have stood . . . while living" are not in
the MS. ]
[fe] _There were no other ways for truth to pierce them_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[ff] {441}_The torture for the exposure of the truth_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[fg]
/ _Doge Faliero's consort_.
\
_Noble Venetians! _ < >--[MS. M. erased. ]
\ _with respect the Duchess_. /
[458] The Venetian senate took the same title as the Roman, of
"conscript fathers. " [It was not, however, the Senate, the _Pregadi_,
but the _Consiglio dei Dieci_, supplemented by the _Zonta_ of Twenty,
which tried and condemned the Doge. ]
[fh] {443}_He hath already granted his own guilt_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[fi] _He is a Sovereign and hath swayed the state_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[459] {445}[The accepted spelling is "aerie.
[456] {440}[Gelo is quoted as the type of a successful and beneficent
tyrant held in honour by all posterity; Thrasybulus as a consistent
advocate and successful champion of democracy. ]
[457] [The lines from "I would have stood . . . while living" are not in
the MS. ]
[fe] _There were no other ways for truth to pierce them_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[ff] {441}_The torture for the exposure of the truth_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[fg]
/ _Doge Faliero's consort_.
\
_Noble Venetians! _ < >--[MS. M. erased. ]
\ _with respect the Duchess_. /
[458] The Venetian senate took the same title as the Roman, of
"conscript fathers. " [It was not, however, the Senate, the _Pregadi_,
but the _Consiglio dei Dieci_, supplemented by the _Zonta_ of Twenty,
which tried and condemned the Doge. ]
[fh] {443}_He hath already granted his own guilt_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[fi] _He is a Sovereign and hath swayed the state_. --[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[459] {445}[The accepted spelling is "aerie.