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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Are we falling by the arrows of the Python-slayer? We are shot like birds." "We are the children of Apollo. Would our father kill us?" "Saturn has returned to devour his children." Socrates sank in meditation, and remained standing. "We have angered the gods." Lucillus the Roman entered. "See the Roman!" said Socrates, "the lord of the future and of the world. What has he to tell us?"
I reproduce from the Pisan edition the punctuation 'When like Apollo, from his golden bow'; but I think the exact sense would be better brought out if we read 'When, like Apollo from his golden bow, The Pythian, &c. 'The Pythian of the age one arrow sped, And smiled. Byron is here assimilated to Apollo Pythius Apollo the Python-slayer.
The sun, then setting, shone full on his countenance as he looked round; and that countenance was one that might have haunted the nymphs of Delos; the face of Apollo, not as the hero, but the shepherd not of the bow, but of the lute not the Python-slayer, but the young dreamer by shady places he whom the sculptor has portrayed leaning idly against the tree the boy- god whose home is yet on earth, and to whom the Oracle and the Spheres are still unknown.
The sun, then setting, shone full on his countenance as he looked round; and that countenance was one that might have haunted the nymphs of Delos; the face of Apollo, not as the hero, but the shepherd not of the bow, but of the lute not the Python-slayer, but the young dreamer by shady places he whom the sculptor has portrayed leaning idly against the tree the boy-god whose home is yet on earth, and to whom the Oracle and the Spheres are still unknown.
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