[We are indebted to another correspondent, LOUISA JULIA NORMAN,
for pointing out the same epigram _on Coleman_ in _The Panorama of
Wit_ (1809). Coleman, on whom the epigram appears to have been
originally written, is obviously the Jesuit of that name executed
in the reign of Charles II.]
"_Son of the Morning_" (Vol. iv., pp. 209. 330. 391.).--As none of your
correspondents have been able to explain the meaning of this passage in
_Childe Harold_, I may now tell you that the phrase is an orientalism
for "traveller," in allusion to their early rising to avoid the heat of
the mid-day sun. Lord Byron invites the traveller to visit the ruins of
Greece, but not to molest them as some former travellers had done; then
he turns upon Lord Elgin, and attacks him for his misdeeds in that way.