vil (or Enville), Knt., the
Spectator, No. 299.

[72] Paley would supply [Greek: potniai] to complete the
metre.

[73] I have followed Griffiths.

[74] Dindorf would throw out [Greek: aphobos], Paley
[Greek: ou dedia], remarking that the sense appears to
require [Greek: hote].

[75] _I.e._ possessing resources even among
impossibilities. Cf. Antig. 360. [Greek: aporos ep' ouden
erchetai], and for the construction, Jelf, Gk. Gr. Sec.
581, 2. obs.

[76] I think Elmsley has settled the question in favor of
[Greek: toion] for [Greek: hoion].

[77] "In AEschylus we seem to read the vehement language of
an old servant of exploded Titanism: with him Jupiter and
the Olympians are but a new dynasty, fresh and exulting,
insolent and capricious, the victory just gained and yet
but imperfectly secured over the mysterious and venerable
beings who had preceded, TIME, HEAVEN, OCEAN, EARTH and
her gigantic progeny: Jupiter is still but half the
monarch of the world; his future fall is not obscurely
predicted, and even while he reigns, a gloomy irresistible
destiny controls his power."--Quart. Rev. xxviii, 416.

[79] Milton, Samson Agon.

_Dalilah._ "I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To prayers than winds or seas."

Merchant of Venice, Act 4, sc. 1.

"You may as well go stand upon the beach
And bid the main flood bate his usual height."

See Schrader on Musaeus, 320.

[80] See Linwood's Lexicon. Cf. Nonnus, Dionys. II. p. 45,
22.

[Greek: desma phygon dolometis homarteseie Prometheus,
hepatos heboontos apheidea daitymonea
ouranies thrasyn ornin echon pompea keleuthou].

[81] I have adopted Dindorf's emendation. See his note.

[82] How the cosmoramic effects here described were
represented on the stage, it is difficult to say, but such
descriptions are by no means rare in the poets. Compare
Musaeus, 314, sqq. Lucan, I. 75 sqq. and a multitude in the
notes of La Cerda on Virgil, AEn. I. 107, and Barthius on
Claudian. Gigant. 31, sqq. Nonnus, Dionys. I. p. 12.

[83] Or, "of which may Jove the Averter be what his name
imports." See Paley and Linwood's Lex.

[84] This interpretation is now fully established, See
Paley. Thus Caesar, B. G. I. 29, "qui arma ferre possent:
et item separatius pueri, senes;" II. 28, Eteocles wishes
even the [Greek: achreioi] to assist in the common
defense.

[85] [Gr