e dead._

TRACHINIAN MAIDENS.

1 P. 180, l. 104. _Bride of battle-wooing._ 'Deanira' signifies 'Cause
of strife to heroes.'

2 P. 185, l. 303. _Ne'er may I see thee._ The Spartan captives from
Pylos had lately been at Athens, and some of them were reputed
descendants of Hyllus, the son of Deanira.

3 P. 195, l. 654. _Frees him for ever._ His last contest brings his
final deliverance.

4 P. 201, l. 860. _From Love's dread minister,_ i.e. from Aphrodite,
working through the concealed and silent Iole.

PHILOCTETES.

1 P. 222, l. 194. _Through Chrysa's cruel sting._ Chrysa was an island
near the Troad, sacred to a goddess of the name. Her precinct was
guarded by a serpent, whose bite, from which Philoctetes suffered,
was incurable. See below p. 254, l. 1327.

2 P. 226, l. 344. _The fosterer of my sire._ Phoenix, the tutor of
Achilles.

3 P. 227, l. 351. _For I ne'er | Had seen him._ The legend which makes
Achilles go to Troy from Scyros is probably ignored.

4 l. 384. _Vile offset of an evil tree._ Alluding to the supposed
birth of Odysseus. See on Ai., l. 190, p. 60 [sic. should be p. 49].

5 P. 230, l. 489. _Of old Chalcodon._ One of the former generation, a
friend and neighbour of Poeas the father of Philoctetes.

6 P. 237, l. 729. _Of him, whose home is in the skies._ Heracles,
imagined as transfigured on Mount Oeta.

7 P. 254, l. 1328. _The sky-roofed fold._ The open precinct that was
sacred to the goddess, merely surrounded by a wall. See above, note
on p. 222, l. 194.

8 P. 255, l. 1333. _Phoebus' child._ Asclepius.

OEDIPUS AT COLONOS.

1 P. 265, l. 158. _Mingles with draughts,_ &c. Where libations are
mixed of water and honey.

2 P. 288, l. 888. _The God._ Poseidon. See above, p. 282 [sic. should
be p. 262], l. 55.

3 P. 306, l. 1525. _neighbouring._ [Greek: geitonon] (the participle).

4 l. 1534. _The dragon-brood._ The Cadmeian race at Thebes, sprung
from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus.

N.B.--For other questionable points the student is referred to the
small edition of _Sophocles_, by Campbell and Abbott (2 vols.,
Clarendon Press, 1900).

Oxford: HORACE HART, Printer to the University.

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