FOOTNOTES:
[1] The recent book of August Fick upon the place-names in Greek lands shows that the great majority are not Greek, and this is particularly the case with Attica, the purest home of culture, showing that even here there survived a large indigenous population. This is the new signification of the Athenian claim to be autochthonous, or native children of the soil.
[2] The readers of my Rambles and Studies in Greece will remember how I was once shipwrecked in the very harbour of Ægina, and compelled to seek hospitality in a modest private house. When I saw the woman of the house in the morning, by the light of day, I shouted to my companions that one of the figures of the Parthenon had walked into the room. The splendid type was there in its perfection.
[3] The Odyssey of Homer, the two tragedies on Œdipus of Sophocles, the Birds and Frogs of Aristophanes, the Pythian odes of Pindar, not to speak of smaller gems such as the scraps of Sappho and Simonides, the Idylls of Theocritus.
[4] Of course this common inference may be quite mistaken. Artificial things are often a real and great improvement on nature.
[5] This is probably the case with Hipponax.
[6] This remark is from Hare’s almost forgotten Guesses at Truth, an excellent book.
“Keen were his pangs but keener far to feel
He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel”
is straight from Æschylus.