P. 79, l. 1253, Scourge thee as a burning wheel.]--At certain feasts a big wheel soaked in some inflammable resin or tar was set fire to and rolled down a mountain. P. 79, l. 1258, There is a hill in Athens.]--The great fame of the Areopagus as a tribunal for man-slaying (see Aeschylus' _Eumenides_) cannot have been due merely to its incorruptibility. Hardly any Athenian tribunal was corruptible. But the Areopagus in very ancient times seems to have superseded the early systems of "blood-feud" or "blood-debt" by a humane and rational system of law, taking account of intention, provocation, and the varying degrees of guilt. The Erinyes, being the old Pelasgian avengers of blood, now superseded, have their dwelling in a cavern underneath the Areopagus. P. 80, ll. 1276 ff.]--The graves of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra actually existed in Argos (Paus. ii. 16, 7). They form, so to speak, the concrete material fact round which the legend of this play circles (cf. Ridgeway in _Hellenic Journal_, xxiv. p. xxxix.). P. 80, l. 1280.]--Helen. The story here adumbrated is taken from Stesichorus, and forms the plot of Euripides' play _Helena_ (cf. Herodotus, ii. 113 ff.). P. 80, l, 1295, I also, sons of Tyndareus.]--Observe that Electra claims the gods as cousins (cf. p. 22, l. 313), addressing them by the name of their mortal father. The Chorus has called them "sons of Zeus." In the same spirit she faces the gods, complains, and even argues, while Orestes never raises his eyes to them. P. 80, l. 1300.]--Kêres. The death-spirits that flutter over our heads, as Homer says, "innumerable, whom no man can fly nor hide from." P. 82, l. 1329, Yea, our peace is riven by the strange pain of these that die.]--Cf. the attitude of Artemis at the end of the _Hippolytus_. Sometimes Euripides introduces gods whose peace is not riven, but then they are always hateful. (Cf. Aphrodite in the _Hippolytus_, Dionysus in the _Bacchae_, Athena in the _Trojan Women_.) P. 82, l. 1336, O faithful unto death.]--This is the last word we hear of Electra, and it is interesting. With all her unlovely qualities it remains true that she was faithful--faithful to the dead and the absent, and to what she looked upon as a fearful duty. * * * * *