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NOTES

SOME PROPER NAMES

AIDONEUS, Hades or Pluto.
ARES, The War-God, a destructive Power.
DEO, Demeter.
ERINYES, the Furies.
HELIOS, The Sun-God.
RHEA, the Mother of the Gods.
THEBE, the town of Thebes personified.

ANTIGONE.

1 P. 6, l. 126. _The serpent._ The dragon, the emblem of Thebes.

2 l. 130. _Idly caparisoned._ Reading [Greek: huperopliais].

3 P. 7, l. 140. _Self-harnessed helper._ An allusion to the [Greek:
seiraphoros], or side trace-horse, in a chariot-race.

4 P. 13, l. 342. _Children of the steed._ Mules are so-called by
Homer.

5 P. 30, l. 955. _Dryas' hasty son._ Lycurgus. See Homer, _Iliad_, vi.

6 l. 971. _Phineus' two sons._ Idothea, the second wife of Phineus,
persecuted his two sons by Cleopatra, a daughter of Boreas, whom he
had repudiated and immured. The Argonauts saw them in the condition
here described.

7 P. 34, l. 1120. _The all-gathering bosom wide._ The plain of
Eleusis, where mysteries were held in honour of Deo or Demeter.

8 P. 39, l. 1301. Reading [Greek: *oxuthekto ... peri*xiphei].

9 l. 1303. _The glorious bed of buried Megareus._ Megareus, son of
Creon and Eurydice, sacrificed himself for Thebes by falling into a
deep cave called the Dragon's Lair.

AIAS.

1 P. 48, l. 172. _Her blood-stained temple._ In some of her temples
Artemis was worshipped with sacrifices of bulls, and, according to
an old tradition, also with human sacrifices.

2 P. 49. l. 190. _The brood of Sisyphus._ Amongst his enemies,
Odysseus was reputed to be the offspring of Sisyphus and not of
Laertes.

3 P. 59, l. 574. _Named of the shield._ Eurysakes means Broadshield.

4 P. 71, l. 1011. _Who smiles no more._ Compare a fragment of the
_Teucer_ of Sophocles (519, Nauck),

'How vain then, O my son,
How vain was my delight in thy proud fame,
While I supposed thee living! The fell Fury
From her dark shroud beguiled me with sweet lies.'

KING OEDIPUS.

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 w