[171] The Cabeiri were mystic Powers. Aeschylus wrote a drama under this title. The ancients differ greatly as to their origin and nature, Herodotus assumes an Egyptian origin.
[172] Feste is as a substantive a stronghold, and this may be Hegel's meaning, but I think he uses it here for Festigkeit, consistency, compact security.
[173] The sentence is not very clear. The sense is that Prometheus is honoured as the Earth and Sun are honoured by his assistance of human needs.
[174] Vv. 54-6. "This entire spot is sacred; awful Poseidon holds it, and therein is the fire bringing god, the Titan Prometheus."
[175] Vv. 1645-8.
[176] Vv. 901 et seq.
[177] Hegel means that in the suffering of Kleon Sophocles treats the natural law of Antigone and the higher law of the king on the same terms.
[178] Lit., "what is made for it," e.g., the detail of objective experience.
[179] Unvergänglichkeit. Hegel no doubt refers to the epithet always applied by Homer and other, Greek poets to the gods of Olympus, immortal.