[130] "Soul of mine, in due season it is meet to gather love, when life is young."

[131] De Aud. Poet., p. 16 C.

[132] De Subl., xxxiii. 5.

[133] See above, p. [378].

[134] Notice the phrases βελτιόνες in Poet., cap. ii., as compared with καθ' ἡμᾶς, and again ὁμοίους ποιοῦντες, καλλίους γράφουσιν, in cap. xv., together with the whole analogy of painting in both of these places.

[135] Cap. xxvi.

[136] Œd. Tyr., 863; Ant., 450. The first translation is borrowed from Mr. M. Arnold.

[137] See what Goethe says about the importance of Creon and Ismene in the Antigone. (Eckermann, vol. i.)

[138] Our imperfect knowledge of the Attic drama prevents our forming any opinion as to the employment of the deus ex machinâ by the earlier tragedians.

[139] English Translation, vol. i. p. 371.