_Jest and song Apollo owns,
Let Hades keep his woes and groans._
Sophocles again,[83] in his actual assignment of instruments to each, is
quite clear, thus:
_Nor harp nor lyre to wailing strains is dear_,
for it was quite late, indeed only the other day, that the flute
[Sidenote: C] ventured to let itself speak “on themes of joy”; in early
times it trailed along in mourning, nor was its service therein much
esteemed or very cheerful; then there came a general confusion. It was
specially by mingling things which were of Gods with those which were of
daemons that the distinction of the instruments was lost. Anyhow, the
phrase “KNOW THYSELF” seems to stand in a sort of antithesis to the
letter “E”, and yet, again, to accord with it. The letter is an appeal,
a cry raised in awe and worship to the God, as being throughout all
eternity; the phrase is a reminder to mortal man of his own nature and
of his weakness.’
Footnote 51:
Fr. 960.
Footnote 52:
i.e. at draughts, with a play on words.
Footnote 53:
Fr. 71.
Footnote 54:
_Il._ 17, 29.
Footnote 55:
See p. 14.
Footnote 56:
_Il._ 1, 70.
Footnote 57:
So Emperius, whose reading is that of the Paris MS. E. (See Paton _in
loco_.)
Footnote 58:
Fr. 22.
Footnote 59:
A reference to the complaint with which the first attempts of
Aeschylus and others to give literary form to the popular hymns in
honour of Dionysus were greeted.
Footnote 60:
i.e. ‘not many’.
Footnote 61:
See p. 76.
Footnote 62:
Fr. 392.
Footnote 63:
Terms used by Heraclitus (Fr. 24), adapted by the Stoics for the
periodic conflagration and renewal of the universe.
Footnote 64:
_Timaeus_, 31 A and 55 E foll.
Footnote 65:
_De Caelo_, 1, 8-9, 276 a 18.
Footnote 66:
_Il._ 15, 190.
Footnote 67:
See _Iph. Aul._ 865 and _Herc. Fur._ 1221.
Footnote 68: