"ἔσθει βορἀν ἄσωτον....
κἄπειτ' ἐπιγνοὺς ἔργον οὐ κατᾳίσιον
ὤμωξίν....
. . . . . .
λάκτισμα δείπνου ξυνδίκως τιθεῒς ἀρᾷ".—Æsch. Ag. 1568.
[7] τῆς φωνῆς τὸ ἄνθος. This expression may be illustrated by Psalm lvii. 9, "Awake up my glory;" and Psalm xvi. 10, "My glory rejoiced."
"Ο quam cruentas feminas stimulat dolor
Cum patuit una pellici et nuptæ domus!
Scylla et Charybdis Sicula contorquens freta
Minus est timenda, nulla non melior fera est."
Sen. Herc. Œt.
"And their revenge is as the tiger's spring,
Deadly and quick and crushing; yet as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel."—Byron.
[10] This celebrated light-house, situated at the entrance of the port of Alexandria, was built by Sostratus of Cnidos on an island which bore the same name, at the expense of eight hundred talents. It was square, constructed of white stone, and with admirable art, exceedingly lofty, and in all respects of great dimensions. It contained many stories, which diminished in width from below upwards. The upper stories had windows looking seaward, and torches or fires were kept burning in them by night, in order to guide vessels into the harbour.—Dict. of Greek and Roman Antiq.
[11] πορφυρεΐς. Fishers of the murex or purple fish. See a note in Blakesley's Herod. vol. i. p. 522.
[12] πρύμναν ἐκρούσατο.—See Thucyd. vol. i. p. 50.
[13] Once before, when apparently sacrificed by Menelaus and Satyrus.—B. iii.