Ἀφραδέες ναίουσι, βροτῶν εἴδωλα καμόντων;
Odyss. xi. 473.
[726]. Fire was too cheerful in the North to be sufficiently an object of terror: it appeared otherwise in the East, where coolness is the greatest of luxuries.
[727]. Sal. Sat. p. 173.
[728]. Beda himself speaks of “inferni claustra” (H. E. v. 13), and for this there was supposed to be sufficient authority in the figurative expression, Matt. xvi. 18.
[729]. Published by the Society of Antiquaries.
[730]. Beów. l. 1698: and perhaps similarly l. 357, “Helle gemundon.” they worshipped Hel.
[731]. The Greek Fates are also three, and stand in a very similar position towards the Gods. Zeus himself is not exempt from their power. Prometheus, it is true, will not distinctly assert Zeus to be weaker than the Fates, but he answers very decisively that even Zeus cannot escape his Fate.
Χο. Τίς οὖν ἀνάγκης ἐστὶν οἰακοστρόφος;
Πρ. Μοῖραι τρίμορφαι, μνήμονές τ' Ἐριννύες.