Justly, as I have prayed,
By means of subtle counsels which God gives
To liberate from ills.[[270]]
ÆSCHYLOS
[206]. The daughters of Danaos are always represented as fifty in number. It seems probable, however, that the vocal chorus was limited to twelve, the others appearing as mutes.
[207]. The alluvial deposit of the Delta.
[208]. Syria is used obviously with a certain geographical vagueness, as including all that we know as Palestine, and the wilderness to the south of it, and so as conterminous with Egypt.
[209]. Elsewhere in Æschylos (Agam. 33, Fr. 132) we trace allusion to games played with dice. Here we have a reference to one, the details of which are not accurately known to us, but which seems to have been analogous to draughts or chess.
[210]. See the whole story, given as in prophecy, in the Prometheus, v. 865-880.