“And yet thou sailedst with them by constraint,
By tricks fast bound.”
Footnote 334:
Geryon appears in the myth of Hercules as a monster with three heads
and three bodies, ruling over the island Erytheia, in the far West,
beyond Hesperia. To destroy him and seize his cattle was one of the
“twelve labours,” with which Hesiod (_Theogon._ vv. 287-294) had
already made men familiar.
Footnote 335:
When a man is buried, there is earth above and earth below him.
Clytæmnestra having used the words “coverlet,” pauses to make her
language accurate to the very letter. She is speaking only of the
earth which would have been laid over her husband's corpse, had he
died as often as he was reported to have done. She will not utter
anything so ominous as an allusion to the depths below him stretching
down to Hades.
Footnote 336: