Part 9

One of the three ports at Athens. See Pausanias, i. 1.

Iolaus was the nephew of Hercules, and was associated with him in many of his Labours. See Pausanias, i. 19; vii. 2; viii. 14, 45.

I read [Greek: synoarizontas]. The general reading [Greek: synerontas] will hardly do here. Wyttenbach suggests [Greek: synearizontas].

What the [Greek: dibolia] was is not quite clear. I have supposed a jersey.

The women of Lemnos were very masterful. On one memorable occasion they killed all their husbands in one night. Thus the line of Ovid has almost a proverbial force, "Lemniadesque viros nimium quoque vincere norunt."--Heroides, vi. 53. Siebelis in his Preface to Pausanias, p. xxi, gives from an old Scholia a sort of excuse for the action of the women of Lemnos.

Probably the epilepsy. See Herodotus, iii. 33.

Euripides, "Bacchae," 203.

Euripides, Fragment of the "Melanippe."

I take Wyttenbach's suggestion as to the reading here.

This line is taken bodily by Aristophanes in his "Frogs," 1244.

The first line is the first line of a passage from Euripides, consisting of thirteen lines, containing similar sentiments to this. See Athenaeus, xiii. p. 599, F. The last two lines are from Euripides, "Hippolytus," 449, 450.

Compare Lucretius, i. 1-5.

Hesiod, "Theogony," 116-120.

Euripides, "Danae," Frag. Compare Ovid, "Cedit amor rebus: res age, tutus eris."

Sophocles, Fragm. 678, Dindorf. Compare a remark of Sophocles, recorded by Cicero, "De Senectute," ch. xiv.

Sophocles, Fragm. 720. Reading [Greek: kala] with Reiske.

Iliad, v. 831.

Connecting [Greek: Ares] with [Greek: anairein].

The Saint Hubert of the Middle Ages.

AEschylus, Frag. 1911. Dindorf.

Odyssey, v. 69.

Fragm. 146, 125.

Hermes is alluded to.

All these four were titles of Zeus. They are very difficult to put into English so as to convey any distinctive and definite idea to an English reader.

Enthusiasm is the being [Greek: entheos], or inspired by some god.

From AEschylus, "Supplices," 681, 682.

"Iliad," vii. 121, 122.

Like the character described in Lucretius, ii. 1-6.