The Hindoos in their description of the primeval male who, with a thousand heads and a thousand faces, issued from the mundane egg, use the same image--"the hairs of his body are trees and plants, of his head the clouds, _of his beard, lightning_, and his nails are rocks."--Colonel VANS KENNEDY, Ch. VIII. Our translators generally (except SEW. and CON.) have eschewed transplanting this image literally into English; and even the Germans have stumbled, FR. giving Feuersaüle most unhappily. DROY., when he says "Schweife," gives the true idea, but I am not afraid to let the original stand. Note 34 (p. 51). ". . . the headlands that look down On the Saronic gulf." I see no proof that πρῶν ever means anything but a promontory, and so cannot follow CON. in reading κάτοπτρον. Note 35 (p. 51). "Each from the other fired with happy news," etc. An allusion to the famous λαμπαδηφορία, or torch race, practised by the Greeks at the Parthenon and other festivals. In this race a burning torch was passed from hand to hand, so that, notwithstanding the extreme celerity of the movement, the flame might not go out. See the article by LIDDELL in the _Dict. Antiq._ where difficulties in the detail are explained. {343} Note 36 (p. 52). "To their hearts' content." The reading of WELL. and the MS. ὡς δυσδαίμονες will never do, though MED. certainly has shown genius by striking out of it "Soundly as mariners when the danger's past They sleep." The connection decidedly requires ῶς (ε)υδαιμονες, neither more nor less than "to their hearts' content," as I have rendered it. But one would almost be reconciled to the sad state of the text of Æschylus, if every difficulty were cleared with such a masterly bound as MED. here displays. The Germans, FR. and DR., incapable, or not liking such capers, adhere to the simple (ε)υδαίμονες. HUMB., according to his general practice, follows the captainship of Hermann, and gives "Götterngleich (ὡς δε δαίμονες)." Note 37 (p. 52). ". . . Happy if the native gods They reverence." This sober fear of the evil consequences of excess in the hour of triumph, so characteristic a trait of ancient poetry, and purposely introduced here by Clytemnestra to serve her own purpose, finds an apt illustration in the conduct of Camillus at the siege of Veii, as reported by Livy (V. 21)-- "Ad prædam miles permissu dictatoris discurrit. Quæ quum ante oculos ejus aliquantum spe atque opinione major majorisque pretii rerum ferretur, dicitur, manus ad cœlum tollens precatus esse, ut si cui deorum hominumque nimia sua fortuna populique Romani videretur, ut eam invidiam lenire quam minimo suo privato incommodo, publicoque populo Romano liceret." Note 38 (p. 52). "Having turned the goal." The reader is aware that in the ancient racecourse there was a _meta_, or goal, at each end of the course, round which the racers turned round (_metaque fervidis evitata rotis_.--Hor. Carm. I. 1; and Æneid V. 129).