[Illustration]

[Greek:
Ándra moi hénnepe, Mousa, polýtropon, hòs mála pollà
Plágchthae . . . . . . .
Pollon d' anthrópon íden ástea kaì nóon égno].

_Odyssey_, I.


--"I AM BECOME A NAME;
FOR ALWAYS ROAMING WITH A HUNGRY HEART
MUCH HAVE I SEEN AND KNOWN; CITIES OF MEN,
AND MANNERS, CLIMATES, COUNCILS, GOVERNMENTS,
MYSELF NOT LEAST, BUT HONOURED OF THEM ALL."

TENNYSON.


"A SEDER CI PONEMMO IVI AMBODUI
VÔLTI A LEVANTE, OND' ERAVAM SALITI;
CHÈ SUOLE A RIGUARDAR GIOVARE ALTRUI."

DANTE, _Purgatory_, IV.


[Illustration: Messer Marco Polo, with Messer Nicolo and Messer Maffeo,
returned from xxvi years' sojourn in the Orient, is denied entrance to the
Ca' Polo. (See _Int._ p. 4)]