1303 (return) [ The jar or casket contained the gifts of the gods
mentioned in l.82.]
1304 (return) [ Eustathius refers to Hesiod as stating that men sprung
“from oaks and stones and ashtrees”. Proclus believed that the Nymphs
called Meliae (_Theogony_, 187) are intended. Goettling would render:
“A race terrible because of their (ashen) spears.”]
1305 (return) [ Preserved only by Proclus, from whom some inferior MSS.
have copied the verse. The four following lines occur only in Geneva
Papyri No. 94. For the restoration of ll. 169b-c see “Class. Quart.”
vii. 219-220. (NOTE: Mr. Evelyn-White means that the version quoted by
Proclus stops at this point, then picks up at l. 170.—DBK).]
1306 (return) [ _i.e._ the race will so degenerate that at the last
even a new-born child will show the marks of old age.]
1307 (return) [ Aidos, as a quality, is that feeling of reverence or
shame which restrains men from wrong: Nemesis is the feeling of
righteous indignation aroused especially by the sight of the wicked in
undeserved prosperity (_cf. Psalms_, lxxii. 1-19).]
1308 (return) [ The alternative version is: ‘and, working, you will be
much better loved both by gods and men; for they greatly dislike the
idle.’]
1309 (return) [ _i.e._ neighbours come at once and without making
preparations, but kinsmen by marriage (who live at a distance) have to
prepare, and so are long in coming.]