[f1]
This original germ of the Furies is mentioned frequently in these plays,
as πολυκρατεῖς ἀρὰι φθιμενων, _Fell Curses of the Dead_, in the Choephoræ,
p. 111 in above. See also the words of Clytemnestra, _My curse beware_,
p. 126 above.
[f2]
Wordsworth's "Athens and Attica," London, 1836, c. 11.
[f3]
"Καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ βουλὴν Ἑφιάλτης ἐκόλουσε καὶ Περικλῆς. τὰ δὲ
δικαστήρια μισθοφόρα κατέστησε Περικλῆς."--ARISTOTLE, Pol. II. 9. 3.
[f4]
"Τῆς ναναρχίας γὰρ ἐν τοῖς Μηδικοῖς ὁ δῆμος ἄιτιος γενόμενος
ἐφρονηματίσθη."--ARISTOTLE, _ibid_.
[f5]
The progeny of Earth and Heaven were called Titans, among whom Phœbe is
numbered by Hesiod.--Theog. 136.
[f6]
Apollo.
[f7]
One of the waters that descend from Parnassus.
[f8]
Neptune.
[f9]
See note to Choephoræ, No. 73.
[f10]
πομπᾶιος. Of the dead specially, but also of the living: as of Ulysses
in the Odyssey, Book X.
[f11]
Literally the unseen world. Sometimes used for the King of the unseen
world--Pluto.
[f12]
See Introductory Remarks.
[f13]
_Lucidae sedes_.--HORACE III. 3.
[f14]
See Introductory Remarks. They designate themselves here from their
origin, Ἀραὶ or _imprecations_.
[f15]
That is, the Furies themselves.
[f16]
Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass,
Und durch die kummervollen Nächte
Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,
Er kennt Euch nicht, ihr hîmmlischen Mächte!--GOETHE.
[f17]
"For strangers and the poor are from Jove."--HOMER.
[f18]
See above, p. 141, Note 4.
[f19]
That is, _Asia_. See Introduction to the Agamemnon.
[f20]
Alluding to the well-known and beautiful allegoric myth that the goddess
of wisdom sprang, full-armed, into birth from the brain of the all-wise
Omnipotent, without the intervention of a mother.
[f21]
See the Preliminary Remarks.
[f22]
παρόρνιθας, as we say ill-starred--that is, _unfortunate_, _unlucky_,
the metaphor being varied, according to the changes of fashions in the
practice of divination.
[f23]
Alii γελῶμαι--"fortasse non male."--PALEY.
[f24]
The goddess of Persuasion--πειθὼ.
[f25]
Like Erectheus (p. 167 above), one of the most ancient Earth-born kings
of Attica.
[f26]
So the Greeks called anything very ancient, from Ogyges, an old Bœotian
king.