FOOTNOTES TO THE CHOEPHORÆ

[f1]

See Niebuhr's Travels (§ 25, c. 4); Michaelis' Commentaries on the Laws

of Moses (Art. 135); and Southey's Thalaba.

[f2]

_Dictionary_--voce GOEL, and Commentaries, § 131.

[f3]

Die Thymele in der Orchestra ist durch ein Aschenkrug als Agamemnon's

Grab bezeichnet.--DROYSEN.

[f4]

Hermes, or Mercury, in his capacity of guide of the dead (ψυχοπομπός) is

here called Χθόνιος, or subterranean.

[f5]

Iphigenia.

[f6]

Proserpine.

[f7]

See Note 64 to Agamemnon.

[f8]

Hermes or Mercury. See Notes 55 and 56 above.

[f9]

The Gorgon Medusa.

[f10]

Agamemnon and Electra.

[f11]

The Furies.--See next piece.

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