Note 2 (p. 99). "* * My early growth of hair To Inachus I vowed." These words will recall to the student of Homer a passage from the twenty-third book of the Iliad, where an account is given of the funeral ceremonies of Patroclus. "First the horsemen came, and then a cloud of infantry behind, Tens of thousands; his companions bore Patroclus in the midst, And the corpse they sadly covered with the locks which grief had shorn." v. 133-5 And again-- "Then another deed devised Achilles, godlike, swift of foot; Stationed sad behind the pyre he dipt his locks of yellow hair, Which, luxuriant shed, he cherished to Spercheius' flowing stream." v. 140-3. Compare the beautiful passage on the Greek mythology in Wordsworth's Excursion, Book IV. Note 3 (p. 99). "O Jove, be thou mine aid." Of the high functions which belong to the supreme god of the Greeks, that of _avenger_ is not the least notable, and is alluded to with special frequency in the Odyssey, of which poem, _retribution in this life for wicked works_ is the great moral--whence the frequent line-- ἀι κε πόθι Ζεὺς δῶσι παλίντιτα ἔργα γενέσθαι. Note 4 (p. 99). "And my cheeks, that herald sorrow." "As these violent manifestations of grief were forbidden by Solon (Plut. 21), we are to look upon them in this place as peculiarly characteristic of the foreign captive maidens who compose the chorus"--KL.; though the epithet of ἄμφιδρυφὴς ἄλοχος applied to the wife of Protesilaus by Homer (Il. ii. 700, xi. 393), shows that, in the heroic times, at least, the expression of sorrow was almost as violent on the west as on the east side of the Hellespont. Note 5 (p. 101). "And now fear rules." φοβεῖτας δέ τις. "_People are afraid, and dare not speak out_"--PEILE. abruptness of this passage renders it difficult to see the allusion. PALEY {359} gives it quite a different turn. "_Sunt qui ob commissi sceleris quo adepti sint magnam fortunam_ (το ἐυτυχ(ε)ίν) _conscientiam torqueantur._" But I do not think that this rendering agrees so well with the words that follow. The thought seems to be--_the world judges by results; and men are content, even in fear, to obey a usurper, who shows his right by his success._ This brings out a beautiful contrast to the σέβας, or feeling of loyal reverence that filled the public mind towards Agamemnon, who is alluded to in the first words of the Antistrophe. Note 6 (p. 101). "So filthy hands with blood bedabbled."