[{170}] Shielings are places of summer abode in pastoral regions.
[{180}] Reading χεισεται, Mr. Edgar renders “no longer will my mouth ope to tell,” &c.
[{194}] κλισμος seems to answer to fauteuil, διφρος to tabouret.
[{196}] M. Lefébure suggests to me that this is a trace of Phœnician influence: compare Moloch’s sacrifices of children, and “passing through the fire.” Such rites, however, are frequent in Japan, Bulgaria, India, Polynesia, and so on. See “The Fire Walk” in my “Modern Mythology.”
[{204}] An universally diffused belief declares that whosoever tastes the food of the dead may never return to earth.
[{205}] The lines in brackets merely state the probable meaning of a dilapidated passage.
[{214}] This appears to answer to the difficult passage about the bonds of Apollo falling from the limbs of Hermes (Hermes, 404, 405). Loosing spells were known to the Vikings, and the miracle occurs among those of Jesuits persecuted under Queen Elizabeth.
[{254}] There is a gap in the text. Three deeds of Dionysus must have been narrated, then follows the comment of Zeus.