The Chorus understands the vision of the _clairvoyante_ as regards the past tragedy of the house of Atreus, but not that which seems to portend another actually imminent. Footnote 357: Fresh visions come before the eyes of the seeress. She beholds the company of Erinnyes hovering over the accursed house, and calls on them to continue their work till the new crime has met with its due punishment. The murder which she sees as if already wrought, demands death by stoning. Footnote 358: The “yellow” look of fear is thought of as being caused by an actual change in the colour of the blood as it flows through the veins to the heart. Footnote 359: Here there is prevision as well as clairvoyance. The deed is not yet done. The sacrifice and the feast are still going on, yet she sees the crime in all its circumstances. Footnote 360: As before (v. 115) the black eagle had been the symbol of the warrior-chief, so here the black-horned bull, that being one of the notes of the best breed of cattle. A various reading gives “with _her_ swarthy horn.” Footnote 361: What the Chorus had just said as to the fruitlessness of prophetic insight tallied all too well with her own bitter experience. Footnote 362: The ecstasy of horror interrupts the tenor of her speech, and the second “thou” is addressed not to the Chorus, but to Agamemnon, whose death Cassandra has just witnessed in her vision. Footnote 363: The song of the nightingale, represented by these sounds, was connected with a long legend, specially Attic in its origin. Philomela, daughter of Pandion, king of Attica, suffered outrage at the hands of Tereus, who was married to her sister Procne, and was then changed into a nightingale, destined ever to lament over the fate of Itys her sister's son. The earliest form of the story appears in the _Odyssey_ (xix. 518). Comp. Sophocles, _Electr._ v. 148. Footnote 364: In the marriage-rites of the Greeks of the time of Æschylos, the bride for three days after the wedding wore her veil; then, as now no longer shrinking from her matron life, she laid it aside and looked on her husband with unveiled face. Footnote 365: The picture might be drawn by any artist of power, but we may, perhaps, trace a reproduction of one of the grandest passages in the _Iliad_ (iv. 422-426). Footnote 366: So in the _Eumenides_ (v. 293), the Erinnyes appear as vampires, drinking the blood of their victims. Footnote 367: The death of Myrtilos as the first crime in the long history of the house of Pelops. Comp. Soth. _Electr._ v. 470. The “defiler” is Thyestes, who seduced Aerope, the wife of Atreus. Footnote 368: The horror of the Thyestes banquet again haunts her as the source of all the evils that followed, of the deaths both of Iphigenia and Agamemnon. The “stay-at-home” is Ægisthos. Footnote 369: