“προς γαρ Διος ἐισιν ἂπαντες
ξεινοί τε πτωχοί τε.”
“All strangers and beggars come from Jove.”
“The third and crowning cup.”
“Alluding first to the slaughter of the children of Thyestes by Atreus, then to the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, and thirdly, that of Clytemnestra and Ægisthus presently to take place.”—Kl.
“. . . his present aid I ask.
Who laid on my poor wits this bloody task.”
I am inclined with Schütz, Kl., and Peile, to think that there is more propriety in referring this to Apollo than to Pylades. It is true, also, as Schütz remarks, that Æschylus generally, if not invariably, applies the word ἐποπτεύω to the notice taken of anything by a god.