st. 26.

"Words well dispost,
Have secrete powre t' appease inflamed rage."

And Samson Agonistes:

"Apt words have power to swage
The tumors of a troubled mind."

The reading of Plutarch, [Greek: psyches] appears to be a
mere gloss.

[27] Intellige _audaciam prudentia
conjunctam_.--Blomfield.

[28] [Greek: aichma] is rendered "indoles" by Paley (see
on Ag. 467). Linwood by "authority," which is much nearer
the truth, as the spear was anciently used for the
sceptre. Mr. Burges opportunely suggests Pindar's [Greek:
enchos zakoton], which he gives to Jupiter, Nem. vi. 90.

[29] Asia is here personified.

[30] All commentators, from the scholiast downward, are
naturally surprised at this mention of Arabia, when
Prometheus is occupied in describing the countries
bordering on the Euxine. Burges conjectures [Greek:
Abarios], which he supports with considerable learning.
But although the name [Greek: Abarides] (mentioned by
Suidas) might well be given to those who dwelt in unknown
parts of the earth, from the legendary travels of Abaris
with his arrow, yet the epithet [Greek: areion anthos]
seems to point to some really existing nation, while
[Greek: Abaries] would rather seem proverbial. Till, then,
we are more certain, AEschylus must still stand chargeable
with geographical inconsistency.

[31] I have followed Burges and Dindorf, although the
latter retains [Greek: akamantodetois] in his text.

[32] Why Dindorf should have adopted Hermann's frigid
[Greek: hypostegazei], is not easily seen. The reader
will, however, find Griffiths' foot-note well deserving of
inspection.

[33] On [Greek: prouseloumenon], see Dindorf.

[34] Among the mythographi discovered by Maii, and
subsequently edited by Bode, the reader will find some
allegorical explanations of these benefits given by
Prometheus. See Myth. primus I. 1, and tertius 3, 10, 9.
They are, however, little else than compilations from the
commentary of Servius on Virgil, and the silly, but
amusing, mythology of Fulgentius. On the endowment of
speech and reason to men by Prometheus, cf. Themist. Or.
xxxvi. p. 323, C. D. and xxvi. p. 338, C. ed. Hard.; and
for general illustrations, the notes of Wasse on Sallust,
Cat. sub init.

[35] Brick-building is first ascribed to Euryalus and
Hyperbius, two brothers at Athens, by Pliny, H. N. vii.
56, quoted b