from v. 162 to this place, where the initial words are plainly wanting. "Hermes is invoked here as the great mediator between the living and the dead."--KL. "_Herald me in this_"--κηύξας ᾽εμοι--_perform a herald's function to me in this;_ the verb chosen with special reference to the name κήρυξ, according to the common practice of the Greek writers. In the second line below, I can have no hesitation in adopting STAN.'s emendation of ὸωμάτων for ομμάτων. AHRENS (in FR.) has tried to make the passage more pregnant by reading ἁιμάτων, but this scarcely seems such an obvious emendation. Note 13 (p. 103). "These words of evil imprecation dire." This is said to avoid the bad omen of mingling a curse with a blessing. The ancients were very scrupulous as to the use of evil words in religious services, and, when such were either necessary, or had accidentally crept in, they always made a formal apology. This I have expressed more largely than my text warrants in the next line, where I follow SCHÜTZ in reading καλῆς for κακῆς; a correction which, though not absolutely necessary, is sufficiently plausible to justify BLOM., SCHOL., and PAL. in their adoption of it. Note 14 (p. 103). _Chorus_. This chorus seems hopelessly botched in the first half, and all the attempts to mend it are more or less unsatisfactory. If any one think "plashing torrents" a strong phrase, he must know that it is no stronger than καναχὲς in the original, a word familiar to every student of Homer. The ἐρυμα (or ἐρμα--HERM.), I agree with every interpreter, except Klausen, in applying to the tomb of Agamemnon; of the κακῶν κεδνῶν τε, I can make nothing, beyond incorporating the Scholiast's gloss, ἀπότροπον των ἠμετέρων κακῶν. Note 15 (p. 104). _Electra_. The reader will find in POT. a somewhat amplified translation of the line here-- κήρυξ μεγιστε των άνω τε καὶ κάτω, mentioned above as having been thrown back by Hermann to the commencement of Electra's address over the tomb of her father, immediately preceding the short choral ode. It is literally translated by E. P., Oxon.-- "O mightiest herald of the powers above and below," but comes in quite awkwardly, and manifestly out of place. {361} Note 16 (p. 104). ". . . a low-zoned maid's." βαθυζώνου. "High-bosomed," POTTER; "hochgeschürzt," DROYSEN; "deep-bosomed," E. P., Oxon.; "Weib im Festgewand," FRANZ. Not having a distinct idea of what is meant by this epithet, I have contented myself with a literal rendering. Note 17 (p. 104). "If it was dipt From head in Argos, it should be my own."