Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. X. London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies […], 1820

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Και την αρχήν χαρισασθαι τριπεμπελῳ ῾Ρωμη, τῇ
1. + This tale is the subject of 2. “Mahmoud” a beautiful poem 3. of Leigh Hunt. The poet acknowledges 4. his indebtedness to Gibbon. –
     1. + Since Gibbon’s time, historical
     2. criticism has rejected these
     3. epistles as spurious.
   1. + “They confound all measure
   2. “of feet and syllables in the

   3. “impotent strains which have
   4. “received the name of political

   5. “or city verses”.

   6. It is evident that Gibbon
   7. knew nothing of the matter.

   8. In the “political” verse no

   9. confusion of feet & syllables is
   10. possible, owing to the meter’s abso-

   11. lute simplicity.

   12. υ – υ – υ – υ – || υ – υ – υ – υ –– that is
   13. the whole mystery.

   14. So far from being confusing
   1. or confused it approaches per-
   2. haps to jingle.
   3. Probably it was difficult
   4.                 the    5. for Gibbon – with long & short syl-

   6. lables of the ancient prosody

   7. in his mind – to read, e.g.,

   8. “Τὴν πόλιν τὴν βασίλειαν ἀποκοσμῆσαι θέλων”,
V9. as
   10. υ – υ – υ – υ – || υ – υ – υ – υ.

   11. Scanning the verse on the
   12. old Greek measures, must have

   13. been really a confusing & puzzling

   14. business.

   15. But the “Political” verse
   16. and modern Greek prosody
   1. are not to blame, if Gibbon
   2. was ignorant. –
   3.                 C.

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Gibbon, Edward

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, John Richardson, J. M. Richardson, Jeffery and Son, J. and A. Arch, J. and W. Clarke, Black and Co, S. Bagster, W. Stewart, Hatchard and Son, W. Ginger, J. Mawman, R. Scholey, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, J. Asperne, T. Hamilton, J. Bohn, J. Ebers, R. Saunders, G. Greenland, Olge and Co, G. and W. B. Whittaker, Taylor and Hessey, Simpkin and Marshall, Rodwell and Martin, C. Taylor, Isaac Sheldon, W. Wood, Lloyd and Son, G. Mackie and J. Parker, Fairbairn and Anderson

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22 x 13.5 cm; 2 s.p. + XII p. + 385 p. + 3 s.p. + 1 insert, label with the name of the former owner on verso of the front cover: “Mr. Thomas Bell”. On l. 1 bookplate CPC on recto, p. [ΙΙΙ] title page and p. [V]-XII “Contents”. Pencil marks on p. 99, 163, 375, reading traces with pencil on p. 153, 338, 375. C. P. Cavafy’s handwritten note in black ink inserted between pages 162-163 regarding traits of the text, where he signs as “C.”. P. [386] colophon.

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The inserts and handwritten notes found in Edward Gibbon’s volumes were transcribed for the first time by Diana Haas. See Diana Haas, “Cavafy’s reading notes on Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall”, Folia Neohellenica 4 (1982), 25-96.

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