2521 (return) [ Hermes is ambitious (l. 175), but if he is cast into
Hades he will have to be content with the leadership of mere babies
like himself, since those in Hades retain the state of growth—whether
childhood or manhood—in which they are at the moment of leaving the
upper world.]
2522 (return) [ Literally, ‘you have made him sit on the floor’, _i.e._
‘you have stolen everything down to his last chair.’]
2523 (return) [ The Thriae, who practised divination by means of
pebbles (also called THRIAE). In this hymn they are represented as aged
maidens (ll. 553-4), but are closely associated with bees (ll. 559-563)
and possibly are here conceived as having human heads and breasts with
the bodies and wings of bees. See the edition of Allen and Sikes,
Appendix III.]
2524 (return) [ Cronos swallowed each of his children the moment that
they were born, but ultimately was forced to disgorge them. Hestia,
being the first to be swallowed, was the last to be disgorged, and so
was at once the first and latest born of the children of Cronos. Cp.
Hesiod _Theogony_, ll. 495-7.]
2525 (return) [ Mr. Evelyn-White prefers a different order for lines
#87-90 than that preserved in the MSS. This translation is based upon
the following sequence: ll. 89,90,87,88.—DBK.]
2526 (return) [ ‘Cattle-earning’, because an accepted suitor paid for
his bride in cattle.]
2527 (return) [ The name Aeneas is here connected with the epithet
AIEOS (awful): similarly the name Odysseus is derived (in _Odyssey_
i.62) from ODYSSMAI (I grieve).]
2528 (return) [ Aphrodite extenuates her disgrace by claiming that the
race of Anchises is almost divine, as is shown in the persons of
Ganymedes and Tithonus.]
2529 (return) [ So Christ connecting the word with OMOS. L. and S. give
= OMOIOS, ‘common to all’.]
2530 (return) [ Probably not Etruscans, but the non-Hellenic peoples of
Thrace and (according to Thucydides) of Lemnos and Athens. Cp.
Herodotus i. 57; Thucydides iv. 109.]