Cadmos, probably “the man from the East,” the Phœnikian who had founded Thebes, and sown the dragon's seed, and taught men a Semitic alphabet for the non-Semitic speech of Hellas. Footnote 82: Worthy of his name as the Wolf-destroyer, mighty to destroy his foes. Footnote 83: Possibly “_from_ battlements attacked.” In the primitive sieges of Greek warfare stones were used as missiles alike by besieged and besiegers. Footnote 84: The name of Onca belonged especially to the Theban worship of Pallas, and was said to have been of Phœnikian origin, introduced by Cadmos. There seems, however, to have been a town Onkæ in Bœotia, with which the name was doubtless connected. Footnote 85: “Alien,” on account of the difference of dialect between the speech of Argos and that of Bœotia, though both were Hellenic. Footnote 86: The vehemence with which Eteocles reproves the wild frenzied wailing of the Chorus may be taken as an element of the higher culture showing itself in Athenian life, which led Solon to restrain such lamentations by special laws (Plutarch, _Solon_, c. 20). Here, too, we note in Æschylos an echo of the teaching of Epimenides. Footnote 87: As now the sailor of the Mediterranean turns to the image of his patron saint, so of old he ran in his distress to the figure of his God upon the prow of his ship (often, as in Acts xxviii. II, that of the _Dioscuri_), and called to it for deliverance (comp. Jonah i. 8). Footnote 88: Eteocles seems to wish for a short, plain prayer for deliverance, instead of the cries and supplications and vain repetitions of the Chorus. Footnote 89: The thought thus expressed was, that the Gods, yielding to the mightier law of destiny, or in their wrath at the guilt of men, left the city before its capture. The feeling was all but universal. Its two representative instances are found in Virgil, _Æn._ 351— “Excessere omnes adytis arisque relictis Di quibus imperium hoc steterat;” and the narrative given alike by Tacitus (_Hist._ v. 13), and Josephus (_Bell. Jud._ vi. 5, 3), that the cry “Let us depart hence,” was heard at midnight through the courts of the Temple, before the destruction of Jerusalem. Footnote 90: _Sc._ Blood must be shed in war. Ares would not be Ares without it. It is better to take it as it comes. Footnote 91: _Sc._, the company of Gods, Pallas, Hera and the others whom the Chorus had invoked. Footnote 92: Reference to this custom, which has passed from Pagan temples into Christian churches, is found in the _Agamemnon_, v. 562. It was connected, of course, with the general practice of offering as _ex votos_ any personal ornaments or clothing as a token of thanksgiving for special mercies. Footnote 93: Rivers and streams as the children of Tethys and Okeanos. Footnote 94: