“He (_sc._ the avenging Demon) boasteth in his pride of heart.”
Footnote 392:
It is characteristic of the teaching of Æschylos that the Chorus
passes from the thought of the agency of any lower Power to the
supreme will of Zeus.
Footnote 393:
Or, “Dying, as dies a slave.”
Footnote 394:
Clytæmnestra still harps (though in ambiguous words, which may refer
also to the murder of the children of Thyestes) upon the death of
Iphigeneia as the crime which it had been her work to avenge.
Footnote 395:
Perhaps, “And that, too, not a slave's.”
Footnote 396:
Here the genealogy is carried one step further to Pleisthenes, the
father of Tantalos.
Footnote 397:
Ægisthos, in his version of the story, suppresses the adultery of
Thyestes with the wife of Atreus, which led the latter to his horrible
revenge.
Footnote 398:
The image is taken from the trireme with its three benches full of
rowers. The Chorus is compared to the men on the lowest, Ægisthos and
Clytæmnestra to those on the uppermost bench.
Footnote 399:
The earliest occurrence of the proverb with which we are familiar
through the history of St. Paul's conversion, Acts ix. 5, xxvi. 14.
Footnote 400:
The trace-horse, as not under the pressure of the collar, was taken as
the type of free, those that wore the yoke, of enforced submission.