MED. gives three lines substantially identical with mine-- "Nor would I counteract the laws of Heaven; My heart would chain my tongue, e'en were it given To drag the secret of the Fates to the day." Note 70 (p. 71). ". . . the household altar." κτησίου βωμοῦ. Literally, _the altar of our family wealth or possession_. In the same way, Jove, the supreme disposer of all human wealth, is called Ζεὺς κτήσιος, possessory Jove. See the Suppliants, v. 440--my translation. Note 71 (p. 72). "My way-god, my leader Apollo!" "Agyieus (from ἀγυιὰ, a way), a surname of Apollo, describing him as the protector of the streets and public places. As such he was worshipped at Acharnæ, Mycenæ, and Tegea."--Dr. SCHMITZ, in the Mythol. Dict. In the same way, by ενοδιον θεὰν (Soph. Antig. 1200), or "the way goddess," is understood Hecate. The Hindoos make their god _Pollear_ perform a similar function, placing his image in all temples, streets, highways, and, in the country, at the foot of some tree, that travellers may make their adorations and offerings to him before they pursue their journey.--SONNERAT in notes to the Curse of Kehama, Canto V. Note 72 (p. 73). "Apollo, my leader, whither hast thou led me?" In this Antistrophe, and the preceding Strophe, there is one of those plays on the name of the god addressed, which appear inappropriate to us, {352} but were meant earnestly enough by the ancients, accustomed to deal with an original language from which the significancy of proper names had not been rubbed away.--See note on Prometheus, v. 85. Besides this, there was naturally a peculiar significancy attached to the names of the gods.--See note 18, p. 338, above. In the present passage the first pun is on the name Απόλλων, Apollo, and the verb ἀπόλλυμι, which signifies to _destroy_) so the Hebrew ABADDON from ABAD, he _perished_.--Apoc. ix. 11), a function of the Sun god familiar enough to the Greek mind, from the description of the pestilence in the opening scene of the Iliad. The second pun is on the title ἀγυιεὺς, leader, or way-god, concerning which see previous note. I have here, as in the case of Helen and Prometheus (v. 85), taken the simple plan of explaining the epithet in the text. The translator who will not do this must either, like CON. and SYM., leave the play on the words altogether imperceptible to the English reader, or, like SEW., be driven to the necessity of inventing a new pun, which may not always be happy English, and is certainly not Greek, thus-- "Apollo! Apollo! Leader! appaller mine! Yea! for the second time thou hast with ease Appalled me, and destroyed me." Note 73 (p. 74). "The blithe blood, that crimson ran In my veins, runs pale and wan." With this SYM. aptly compares a passage from the speech of Theodosius in Massinger's Emperor of the East--