[f1]
Vol. I., c. 3.
[f2]
FAST., HELLEN., Introduc. pp. 6, 7.
[f3]
See Introductory Remarks to the Eumenides.
[f4]
The usual insignia of Suppliants. Wool was commonly used in the adornment
of insignia hallowed by religion.--See Dict. Antiq., _voc. infula_ and
_apex._; and Note 72 to the Choephoræ, and Clem. Alex. Prot. § 10.
[f5]
Epaphus and Io.
[f6]
Epaphus, from ἑπαφὴ. See Note 3 immediately above.
[f7]
This is explained by what follows. An augur, of course, was the proper
person to recognise the notes of birds, or what resembled them.
[f8]
See Note 76 to Agamemnon.
[f9]
PAL. quotes from Massinger's _Emperor of the East_, "To a sad tune I
sing my own dirge," which I have adopted.
[f10]
Artemis, or Diana.
[f11]
τον πολυξενώτατον Ζῆνα, that is, PLUTO.
[f12]
See Note 46 to the Eumenides.
[f13]
See Iliad viii. 69, and other passages, describing the "golden scales of
Jove," in which the fates of men are weighed.
[f14]
See the Agamemnon, Note 94.
[f15]
See PALEY.
[f16]
Cyprus.
[f17]
See Prometheus Bound, p. 192 above.
[f18]
See Prometheus Bound, p. 204 and Note 46.
[f19]
In this very perplexed passage I follow PAL. BOTHE's conjecture,
Αργεῖος, is very happy.
[f20]
A promontory in Cilicia.--STRABO, p. 670. PAL.
[f21]
πρόξενοι.--See Note 19 to page 226 above.
[f22]
"Potui humor ex hordeo aut frumento in quandam similitudinem
vini corruptus."--TACITUS de mor. Geom. c. 23.
[f23]
Venus.
[f24]
This river and the Inachus flow into the Argolic gulf, both near the
city of Argos, taking their rise in the mountain ridge that separates
Argos from Arcadia.
[f25]
The goddess of Persuasion.