There is an etymological allusion in the original here, concerning which see the Notes to the Prometheus Bound, v. 85. The first syllable of Helen's name in Greek means to take, from ἁιρέω 2 aor (ἑ)ιλον. "No one who understands the deep philosophy of Æschylus and his oriental turn of thought will suspect the play upon the name of Helen to be a frigid exercise of wit," says SEW., who has transmuted the pun into English in no bad fashion thus-- "Helen, since as suited well Hell of nations, heroes' hell, Hell of cities, from the tissued Harem-chamber veils she issued." Note 58 (p. 62). ". . . giant Zephyr." I see no reason why so many translators, from STAN. downward, should have been so fond to render γίγαντος "_earth-born_" here, as if there were any proof that any such genealogical idea was hovering before the mind of the poet when he used the word. I entirely agree with CON. that the notion of _strength_ may have been all that was intended (as, indeed, we find in Homer the Zephyr always the strongest wind), and, therefore, I retain the original word. SYM. Anglicising, after his fashion, says, not inaptly-- "Fanned by Zephyr's buxom gales;" and CON. changes _giant_ into _Titan_, perhaps wisely, to avoid certain ludicrous associations. Note 59 (p. 62). "Kin but not kind." Another etymological allusion; κῆδος meaning both _kin_ and _care_. SEW. has turned it differently-- "And a marriage truly hight, A marjoy," etc. HARF. does not relish this "absurd punning" at all, and misses it out in this place; so also POTTER; but I agree altogether with SEW. that "there is nothing more fatal to any poet than to generalize his particularities." Shakespere also puts puns into his most serious passages; a peculiarity which we must even tolerate like an affected way of walking or talking in a beautiful woman; though, for the reason stated in the note to the Prometheus, above referred to, the ancient, when he puns upon proper names, is by no means to be considered as an offender against the laws of good taste, in the same way as the modern. Note 60 (p. 63). "A servant of Até, a priest of Ruin." Até the goddess of destruction, already mentioned (p. 53), and whose name has been naturalized in English by the authority of Shakespere. In Homer ατη appears (1) as an infatuation of mind leading to perdition; (2) as that perdition effected; (3) as an allegorical personage, eldest born of Jove, the cause of that infatuation of mind and consequent perdition (Il. XIX. v. 91). In the tragedians, Ἄτη is more habitually clothed with a distinct and prominent personality. Note 61 (p. 64). "A haughty heart."