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.
P. 6, l. 126. The serpent. The dragon, the emblem of Thebes.
l. 130. Idly caparisoned. Reading ὑπεροπλίαις.
P. 7, l. 140. Self-harnesscd helper. An allusion to the σειραφόρος, or side trace-horse, in a chariot-race.
P. 13, l. 342. Children of the steed. Mules are so-called by Homer.
P. 30, l. 955. Dryas’ hasty son. Lycurgus. See Homer, Iliad, vi.
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.
P. 31, l. 1120. The all-gathering bosom wide. The plain of Eleusis, where mysteries were held in honour of Deo or Demeter.
P. 39, l. 1301. Reading *ὁξυθήκτῳ . . . περὶ*ξίφει.
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.
