FOOTNOTES TO THE SUPPLIANTS
Vol. I., c. 3.
Fast., Hellen., Introduc. pp. 6, 7.
See [Introductory Remarks] to the Eumenides.
The usual insignia of Suppliants. Wool was commonly used in the adornment of insignia hallowed by religion.—See Dict. Antiq., voc. infula and apex.; and [Note 72] to the Choephoræ, and Clem. Alex. Prot. § 10.
Epaphus and Io.
Epaphus, from ἑπαφὴ. See [Note 3] immediately above.
This is explained by what follows. An augur, of course, was the proper person to recognise the notes of birds, or what resembled them.
See [Note 76] to Agamemnon.
Pal. quotes from Massinger’s Emperor of the East, “To a sad tune I sing my own dirge,” which I have adopted.
Artemis, or Diana.
τον πολυξενώτατον Ζῆνα, that is, Pluto.
See [Note 46] to the Eumenides.
See Iliad viii. 69, and other passages, describing the “golden scales of Jove,” in which the fates of men are weighed.
See the Agamemnon, [Note 94].
See Paley.
Cyprus.
See Prometheus Bound, [p. 192] above.
See Prometheus Bound, [p. 204] and [Note 46].
In this very perplexed passage I follow Pal. Bothe’s conjecture, Αργεῖος, is very happy.
A promontory in Cilicia.—Strabo, p. 670. Pal.
πρόξενοι.—See [Note 19] to [page 226] above.
“Potui humor ex hordeo aut frumento in quandam similitudinem vini corruptus.”—Tacitus de mor. Geom. c. 23.
Venus.
This river and the Inachus flow into the Argolic gulf, both near the city of Argos, taking their rise in the mountain ridge that separates Argos from Arcadia.
The goddess of Persuasion.