[125] Euripides, "Hippolytus," 194-196.
[126] The lines are from Alcæus. Thus Love was the child of the Rainbow and the West Wind. A pretty conceit.
[127] Greek iris.
[128] The mirrors of the ancients were of course not like our mirrors. They were only burnished bronze. Hence the view in them would be at best somewhat obscure. This explains 1 Cor. xiii. 12; 2 Cor. iii. 18; James i. 23.
[129] See Euripides, "Hippolytus," 7, 8.
[130] Here the story unfortunately ends, and for all time we shall know no more of it. Reiske somewhat forcibly says, "Vel lippus videat Gorgus historiam non esse finitam, et multa, ut et alias, periisse."
[131] Like Reiske we condense here a little.
[132] Reading with Reiske ὀρθῆς και ἀθρύπτου.
[133] I read εἰ γἁρ.
[134] See "Iliad," xxiii. 295. Podargus was an entire horse.