Syria is used obviously with a certain geographical vagueness, as including all that we know as Palestine, and the wilderness to the south of it, and so as conterminous with Egypt. Footnote 209: Elsewhere in Æschylos (_Agam._ 33, _Fr._ 132) we trace allusion to games played with dice. Here we have a reference to one, the details of which are not accurately known to us, but which seems to have been analogous to draughts or chess. Footnote 210: See the whole story, given as in prophecy, in the _Prometheus_, v. 865-880. Footnote 211: The invocation is addressed—(1) to the Olympian Gods in the brightness of heaven; (2) to the Chthonian deities in the darkness below the earth; (3) to Zeus, the preserver, as the supreme Lord of both. Footnote 212: An Athenian audience would probably recognise in this a description of the swampy meadows near the coast of Lerna. The descendants of Io had come to the very spot where the tragic history of their ancestors had had its origin. Footnote 213: The invocation passes on to Epaphos, as a guardian deity able and willing to succour his afflicted children. Footnote 214: Philomela. See the tale as given in the notes to _Agam._ 1113. Footnote 215: “Streams,” as flowing through the shady solitude of the groves which the nightingale frequented. Footnote 216: “Ionian,” as soft and elegiac, in contrast with the more military character of Dorian music. Footnote 217: In the Greek the _paronomasia_ turns upon the supposed etymological connection between θεὸς and τιθήμι. I have here, as elsewhere, attempted an analogous rather than identical _jeu de mot_. Footnote 218: The Greek word which I have translated “bluff” was one not familiar to Attic ears, and was believed to be of Kyrenean origin. Æschylos accordingly puts it into the lips of the daughters of Danaos, as characteristic more or less of the “alien speech” of the land from which they came. Footnote 219: So in v. 235 Danaos speaks of the “second Zeus” who sits as Judge in Hades. The feeling to which the Chorus gives utterance is that of— “Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.” Footnote 220: Some mound dedicated to the Gods, with one or more altars and statues of the Gods on it, is on the stage, and the suppliants are told to take up their places there. The Gods of conflict who are named below, Zeus, Apollo, Poseidon, presided generally over the three great games of Greece. Hermes is added to the list. Footnote 221: Comp. _Libation-Pourers_, 1024, _Eumen._ 44. Footnote 222: The Argives are supposed to share the love of brevity which we commonly connect with their neighbours the Laconians. Footnote 223: