1 P. 86, l. 36. _That stern songstress._ The Sphinx. See also
'minstrel hound.'
2 P. 96, l. 402. _Will hunt | Pollution forth._ The party cry of
'driving out the pollution' was raised against the Alcmaeonidae and
other families in Athens, who were supposed to lie under a
traditional curse.
3 P. 99. l. 525. _Who durst declare it._ [Greek: Tou pros d'
ephanthê]. Though the emphatic order of words is unusual, this seems
more forcible than the var. [Greek: toupos d' ephanthe].
4 P. 102, l. 625. [CR. _You'll ne'er relent nor listen to my plea._] A
line has here been lost in the original.
5 P. 113, l. 1025. _Your purchase or your child?_ Oedipus is not to be
supposed to have weighed the import of the Corinthian shepherd's
words, 'Nor I nor he,' &c., _supra_.
6 P. 128. l. 1526. _His envied fortune mounted beaming._ Reading
[Greek: en zêlô politôn] (with 2 MSS) and [Greek: epiphlegôn] from
my conjecture.