The ocean nymphs, like other divine ones, would be anointed with ambrosial unguents, and the odour would be wafted before them by the rustling of their wings. This too we may think of as part of the “stage effects” of the play. Footnote 146: The words are not those of a vague terror only. The sufferer knows that his tormentor is to come to him before long on wings, and therefore the sound as of the flight of birds is full of terrors. Footnote 147: By the same stage mechanism the Chorus remains in the air till verse 280, when, at the request of Prometheus, they alight. Footnote 148: Here, as throughout the play, the poet puts into the mouth of his _dramatis personæ_ words which must have seemed to the devouter Athenians sacrilegious enough to call for an indictment before the Areiopagos. But the final play of the Trilogy came, we may believe, as the _Eumenides_ did in its turn, as a reconciliation of the conflicting thoughts that rise in men's minds out of the seeming anomalies of the world. Footnote 149: The words leave it uncertain whether Themis is identified with Earth, or, as in the _Eumenides_ (v. 2) distinguished from her. The Titans as a class, then, children of Okeanos and Chthôn (another name for _Land_ or _Earth_), are the kindred rather than the brothers of Prometheus. Footnote 150: The generalising words here, as in v. 35, appeal to the Athenian hatred of all that was represented by the words _tyrant_ and _tyranny_. Footnote 151: The state described is that of men who “through fear of death are all their lifetime subject to bondage.” That state, the parent of all superstition, fostered the slavish awe in which Zeus delighted. Prometheus, representing the active intellect of man, bestows new powers, new interests, new hopes, which at last divert them from that fear. Footnote 152: The home of Okeanos was in the far west, at the boundary of the great stream surrounding the whole world, from which he took his name. Footnote 153: One of the sayings of the Seven Sages, already recognised and quoted as a familiar proverb. Footnote 154: See note on _Agam._ 1602. Footnote 155: In the mythos, Okeanos had given his daughter Hesione in marriage to Prometheus after the theft of fire, and thus had identified himself with his transgression. Footnote 156: