1602 (return) [ A proverbial saying meaning, ‘why enlarge on irrelevant
topics?’]
1603 (return) [ ‘She of the noble voice’: Calliope is queen of Epic
poetry.]
1604 (return) [ Earth, in the cosmology of Hesiod, is a disk surrounded
by the river Oceanus and floating upon a waste of waters. It is called
the foundation of all (the qualification ‘the deathless ones...’ etc.
is an interpolation), because not only trees, men, and animals, but
even the hills and seas (ll. 129, 131) are supported by it.]
1605 (return) [ Aether is the bright, untainted upper atmosphere, as
distinguished from Aer, the lower atmosphere of the earth.]
1606 (return) [ Brontes is the Thunderer; Steropes, the Lightener; and
Arges, the Vivid One.]
1607 (return) [ The myth accounts for the separation of Heaven and
Earth. In Egyptian cosmology Nut (the Sky) is thrust and held apart
from her brother Geb (the Earth) by their father Shu, who corresponds
to the Greek Atlas.]
1608 (return) [ Nymphs of the ash-trees, as Dryads are nymphs of the
oak-trees. Cp. note on _Works and Days_, l. 145.]
1609 (return) [ ‘Member-loving’: the title is perhaps only a perversion
of the regular PHILOMEIDES (laughter-loving).]
1610 (return) [ Cletho (the Spinner) is she who spins the thread of
man’s life; Lachesis (the Disposer of Lots) assigns to each man his
destiny; Atropos (She who cannot be turned) is the ‘Fury with the
abhorred shears.’]
1611 (return) [ Many of the names which follow express various
qualities or aspects of the sea: thus Galene is ‘Calm’, Cymothoe is the
‘Wave-swift’, Pherusa and Dynamene are ‘She who speeds (ships)’ and
‘She who has power’.]