Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza i. line 9, and var. i.]
[ [dr] {398} But all the worst sins of the Spartan state.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [ds] The Lords of old Laconia——.—[MS. M. erased.]
[ [423] {399}[Compare—
"A king of shreds and patches."
Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4, line 102.]
[ [424] ["The members of the Ten (Il Cousiglio de' Dieci) were elected in the Great Council for one year only, and were not re-eligible for the year after they had held office. Every month the Ten elected three of their own number as chiefs, or Capi of the Council.... The court consisted, besides the Ten, of the Doge and his six councillors, seventeen members in all, of whom twelve were necessary to make a quorum. One of the Avogadori di Comun, or State advocates, was always present, without the power to vote, but to act as clerk to the court, informing it of the law, and correcting it where its procedure seemed informal. Subsequently it became customary to add twenty members to the Council, elected in the Maggior Consiglio, for each important case as it arose."—Venice, an Historical Sketch, by Horatio F. Brown, 1893, pp. 177, 178. (See, too, Les Archives de Venise, par Armand Baschet, 1870, p. 525.)]
[ [425] {400}[The chronicles are silent as to any embassy or commission from the Republic to Rhodes or Cyprus in which Marin Falier held office or took any part whatever. Cyprus did not pass into the hands of Venice till 1489, and Rhodes was held by the Knights of St. John till 1522.]
[ [426] {401}[Compare—
"We have scotched the snake, not killed it."