[ Footnote 1 ]

See Niebuhr’s Travels (§ 25, c. 4); Michaelis’ Commentaries on the Laws of Moses (Art. 135); and Southey’s Thalaba.

[ Footnote 2 ]

Dictionary—voce Goel, and Commentaries, § 131.

[ Footnote 3 ]

Die Thymele in der Orchestra ist durch ein Aschenkrug als Agamemnon’s Grab bezeichnet.—Droysen.

[ Footnote 4 ]

Hermes, or Mercury, in his capacity of guide of the dead (ψυχοπομπός) is here called Χθόνιος, or subterranean.

[ Footnote 5 ]

Iphigenia.