If the reader thinks this a bold phrase, he must bear in mind that it is Cassandra who speaks, and Æschylus who writes. The translation, indeed, is not literal, but the word "θερμόνους," as CON. says, "has all the marks of genuineness," and I was more afraid of weakening it in translation than of exaggerating it. Other translations are-- "And I my warm blood soon on earth shall pour."--SYM. "But I shall soon press my hot heart to Earth."--CON. "Ich aber stúrze bald zur Erd im heissen Kampf."--FR. "Ich aber sinke bald im heissen Todeskampf."--DROYS. Note 79 (p. 77). "Waves shall it dash from the west in the sun's face." "The beauty of this image can only be properly appreciated by those who have observed the extraordinary way in which the waves of the sea appear to rush towards the rising sun."--English Prose Tr. Oxon. Note 80 (p. 77). ". . . though I should wedge them As stark as ice?" I read πῆγμα with WELL. and the majority of editors and translators. SYM., who is sometimes a little too imperative in his style, calls this to "obtrude an unnecessary piece of frigidity or fustian on Æschylus." The reader, of course, will judge for himself; but there are many things in our poet more worthy of the term "fustian" than the word πῆγμα, applied to ὁρκος. Note 81 (p. 78). "Implacable breath of curses on her kin." WELL. forgets his usual caution, when he receives ἄρην into his text, and rejects ἀρὰν, the reading of the MS. It is paltry to object to the phrase {354} ἄσπονδον ἀρὰν in an author like Æschylus. FRANZ receives the emendation of LOBECK, modified into Ἄρη. Note 82 (p. 80). "Bravely thou praisest; but the happy hear not Such commendations." I have here, in opposition to FR., SYM., MED., and even the cautious WELL., reverted to the original order of this and the next line, as they appear in the MSS., being chiefly moved by what is said by CON. "The words ὰλλ ἐυκλεῶς τοι κατθαν(ε)ιν χάρις βροτῷ could never have been put by Æschylus into the mouth of Cassandra, who is as far as possible from cherishing the common view of a glorious death, and, indeed, shows in her next speech very plainly what feelings such a thought suggests to her." Note 83 (p. 80). "Not with vain screaming, like a fluttering bird." "Fearing a wild beast about its nest," says the Scholiast; fearing the fowler with "its limed wings," says MED. The original is short and obscure; but there is no need of being definite; nothing is more common than to see a bird fruitlessly fluttering about a bush, and uttering piteous cries. A fit image of vain lamentation without purpose or result. Note 84 (p. 81). ". . . From bad to worse Our changes run, and with the worst we end."