1 With this and the following letter the addresses on the envelopes are given; for all subsequent letters the addresses are the same. The correspondence passed through the post.
2 'Not yet reached the prelude' (Aesch. Prom. 741).
3 The following is the version of the passage in Mrs. Browning's later translation of the 'Prometheus' (II. 247-251 of the original):
Prom. I did restrain besides
My mortals from premeditating death.
Cho. How didst thou medicine the plague-fear of death?
Prom. I set blind hopes to inhabit in their house.
Cho. By that gift thou didst help thy mortals well.