I consider it quite legitimate in a translator, where critical doctors differ, and where decision is difficult or impossible, to embody in his version the ideas of both parties, where that can be done naturally, and without forcing, as in the present instance. It seems to me on the one hand that την κάτω γὰρ ὀυ λέγω has more pregnancy of expression when applied to the dead Geryon, than when interpreted of the earth; and, on the other hand, I cannot think with SYM. that the expression τρίμοιρον χλαῖναν, when applied to the earth, is "rank nonsense." There are many phrases in Æschylus that, if translated literally, sound very like nonsense in English. The parenthetic clause "_of him below I speak not_," is added from a superstitious feeling, to avoid the bad omen of speaking of a living person as dead. So WELL. and SYM., and this appears the most natural qualification in the circumstances. {350} Note 64 (p. 67). "Thy Phocian spear-guest." Speaking of the era of the great Doric migration with regard to Megara, Bishop THIRLWALL (Hist. Greece, c. VII.) writes as follows:--"Megara itself was, at this time, only one, though probably the principal, among five little townships which were independent of each other, and were not unfrequently engaged in hostilities, which, however, were so mitigated and regulated by local usage as to present rather the image than the reality of war. They were never allowed to interrupt the labours of the husbandman. The captive taken in these feuds was entertained as a guest in his enemy's house, and when his ransom was fixed, was dismissed before it was paid. If he discharged his debt of honour he became, under a peculiar name (δορύξενος), the friend of his host; a breach of the compact dishonoured him for life both among the strangers and his neighbours--a picture of society which we could scarcely believe to have been drawn from life, if it did not agree with other institutions which we find described upon the best authority as prevailing at the same period in other parts of Greece." Note 65 (p. 69). "Come, boy, unbind these sandals." This passage will at once suggest to the Christian reader the well-known passage in Exod. iii. 5., "take off thy shoes from thy feet, for the ground where thou standest is holy ground," which KEN. aptly adduces, and compares it with Lev. xxx. 19, and Juvenal Sat. VI. 159-- "Observant ubi festa mero pede Sabbata reges," and other passages. In the same way the hand held up in attestation before a bench of grave judges, according to our modern usage, must be ungloved. Note 66 (p. 69). "Jove, Jove the perfecter! perfect thou my vow."