The sandals fair,
Golden, and undecay’d, that waft him o’er
The sea, and o’er th’ immeasurable earth
With the swift-breathing wind:
there is no mention of the sandals being winged. They seem to have possessed a supernatural power of velocity, like the seven-leagued boots, or the shoes of swiftness, in the Tales of the Giants.
[40] Th’ unbroken vase.] αρρηκτοισι δομοισι. Seleucus, an ancient critic, quoted by Proclus, proposed πιυοισι: as if the casket in which Hope dwelt, might not literally be called her house. Heinsius supposes an allusion to the chamber of a virgin. After this, who would expect that δομοισι means nothing more than a chest?
Ελουσα κεδρινῳν δομῶν
Εσθῆτα, κοσμον τ’.
Euripides. Alcestis. 158.
taking from her cedar coffers