"When they who surrounded the shrine heard this oracle, they were perplexed, and doubted what it should signify. Each interpreted it differently, as his inclinations and understanding led him: none, however, laid hold of its true meaning. Oracles indeed, and dreams, are generally to be explained only by the event. And beside, the Delphians, struck with the preparations which were making for the procession, hastened to behold it, neglecting or deferring any farther scrutiny into the oracular response." [Footnote 1: "Te.... ... cohibent Pulveris exigui.... Munera...."--Hor. I. Od. i. 28. ] [Footnote 2: "May one kind grave unite each hapless name, And graft my love immortal on thy fame."--Pope. ] [Footnote 3: .... "O my soul's joy! .... If I were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy; for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate."--Othello. ] [Footnote 4: This motion is supposed to be a sign of jealousy and anger. Thus Apuleius, lib. vi., Quam ubi primum inductam oblatamque sibi conspexit Venus, latissimum cachinnum extollit; et qualem solent furenter irati, caputque quatiens, _et adscalpens aurem dextram_.] [Footnote 5: Καθάπερ ἐκ μηχανῆς.] [Footnote 6: On the αὐλητρίς and ὀρχηστρίς who exhibited their talents at private parties among the Greeks, see a Note at p. 114 of Mitchell's Translation of Aristophanes; and another on line 481 of his edition of The Frogs.] [Footnote 7: .... πολύπους Καὶ πολύχειο, ἁ δεινοϊς Κρυπτομένα λόχοις, Χαλκόπους Ἐρινύς.--Soph. El. 490. ] [Footnote 8: Literally, persons who make request for valuable gifts, such as swords and tripods, rather than mendicants who beg for broken victuals. Cnemon must mean to say that nature had written "gentleman and gentlewoman" too plainly upon their faces for them to pass current as genuine vagrants. The line quoted is in the Odyssey, B. xvii. l. 222. ... "he seeks Not sword nor tripod, but the scoundrel meed Of mammocks, such as others cast away."--Cowper. ] [Footnote 9: Χάλκέον τινα καὶ πύμα πύματον ὕπνον.--Homer, Il. xi. 241.] [Footnote 10: "Like one, who on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread."--Coleridge. ] [Footnote 11: The Italian bravoes used to encourage the growth of a lock of hair, which might be thrown over the face as a disguise, and which they shaved off when giving up their evil ways. "Il ciuffo era quasi una parte dell' armatura, et un distintivo de' bravacci e degli scapestrati, i quai poi da ciò vennero comunemente chiamati _ciuffi_."--Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi, vol. i., p. 62.] [Footnote 12: Xαίρειν ἐκέλευε.] [Footnote 13: Ίλιόθεν με ψέρεις. "Infandum ... jubes renovare dolorem."--Virgil. ]