[343] In allusion to the cave of the bandit Orestes; the poet terms him a hero only because of his heroic name Orestes.
[344] Prometheus wants night to come and so reduce the risk of being seen from Olympus.
[345] The clouds would prevent Zeus seeing what was happening below him.
[346] The third day of the festival of Demeter was a fast.
[347] A semi-savage people, addicted to violence and brigandage.
[348] Who, being reputed a stranger despite his pretension to the title of a citizen, could only have a strange god for his patron or tutelary deity.
[349] The Triballi were a Thracian people; it was a term commonly used in Athens to describe coarse men, obscene debauchees and greedy parasites.
[350] There is a similar pun in the Greek.
[351] i.e. the supremacy of Greece, the real object of the war.
[352] Prometheus had stolen the fire from the gods to gratify mankind.