[ [439] [For Timoleon, who first saved, and afterwards slew his brother Timophanes, for aiming at sovereignty, see The Siege of Corinth, line 59, note 1, Poetical Works, 1900, iii. 452.]
[ [er] {424} The night is clearing from the sky.—[MS. M. erased.]
[ [440] [For the use of "dapple" as an intransitive verb, compare Mazeppa, xvi. line 646, vide ante, [p. 227].]
[ [es]——Now—now to business.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [et] {425} The signal——.—[MS. M. erased.]
The storm-clock——.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [441] ["'Tis done ... unerring beak" (six lines), not in MS.]
[ [442] [Byron had forgotten the dictum of the artist Reinagle, that "eagles and all birds of prey attack with their talons and not with their beaks" (see Childe Harold, Canto III. stanza xviii. line 6, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 226, note 1); or, possibly, had discovered that eagles attack with their beaks as well as their talons.]
[ [443] [Vide ante, [p. 368, note 1].]