[Footnote 14: Alluding to the barber of King Midas, who, being a bad keeper of secrets, revealed to the reeds the fact of his lord and master having ass's ears. "Creber arundinibus tremulis ibi surgere lucus Cœpit; et ut primum pleno maturuit anno, Prodidit agricolam; leni nam motus ab Austro Obruta verba refert; dominique coarguit aures." Ovid. Met. xi. 190. ] [Footnote 15: Θενίου Διὸς] [Footnote 16: .... "Who far and wide A wand'rer.... Discover'd various cities, and the mind And manners learn'd of men in lands remote."--Od. i. 1. Cowper. ] [Footnote 17: A dreadful serpent.... ... glided to the tree. Eight youngling sparrows with the parent bird Sat screen'd with foliage on the topmost bough. The screaming little ones with ease he gorg'd, And while the mother, circling o'er his head, With shrillest agony bewail'd her loss, He seiz'd her by the wing, first drew her down Within his spiry folds, and then devoured."--Il. ii. 308. Cowper. ] [Footnote 18: .... "Hunger hath a cry which never man Might silence. Many an evil he endures For hunger's sake. It is a _craving gulf_."--Od. xvii. 287. Cowper. ] [Footnote 19: Έπεισόδιον τοῦτo, ὀυδὲν πρὸς τὸν Διόνυσον Έπεισκυκλήσας. ] [Footnote 20: Virg. G. iv. 387.] [Footnote 21: Έκώμαζε. Did Heliodorus take his idea of Rhodope from the celebrated personage of that name mentioned by Herod. ii. 135, and equally famed for her beauty and her profligacy?] [Footnote 22: "The well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts."--Nahum, iii. 4.] [Footnote 23: Ίερομνήμονα.--The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each Amphictyonic state to their Council, along with the πυλαγόρας, the actual deputy or minister.] [Footnote 24: Κινεῖσθαι.] [Footnote 25: Ἵχνος άειράμενος άπ' ίϋστάχυος παρά Νίιλου, Φεύγεις μοιράων νήματ' ἐρισθενέων. Τέτλαθι, σοὶ yὰp ἐγὢ κυαναύλακος Αἰγύπτοιο Άἷψα πέδον δώσω· νῦν δ'εμὸς ἕσσο φίλος. ] [Footnote 26: The address of the Pythia to Lycurgus was as follows:-- Thou com'st, Lycurgus, to this honour'd shrine Favour'd by Jove, and ev'ry power divine, Or God or mortal! how shall I decide? Doubtless to heav'n most dear and most allied. Herod. i. 65.--Beloe's Tr. ] [Footnote 27: Μουσεῖον ὐπὸ μουτηγέτῃ θεῷ φoιβαζομένη.]