I am inclined with SCHÜTZ, KL., and PEILE, to think that there is more propriety in referring this to Apollo than to Pylades. It is true, also, as SCHÜTZ remarks, that Æschylus generally, if not invariably, applies the word ἐποπτεύω to the notice taken of anything by a god. Note 45 (p. 117). "Earth breeds a fearful progeny." The sentiment of this chorus was familiar to the ancients, and was suggested with peculiar force to the minds of the tragedians, from the contemplation of those terrible deeds of old traditionary crime, which so often formed the subject of their most popular and most powerful efforts. Sophocles had a famous chorus in the Antigone, beginning in the same strain, though ranging over a wider and a more ennobling field--"πολλὰ τα δεινὰ κ᾽ ουδὲν ανθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει." "Things of might hath Nature many In her various plan, But of daring powers who dareth Most on Earth is man." In imitation of which, the "Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit in vetitum nefas" of Horace has become proverbial. In modern times, the pages of the _Times_ newspaper will supply more ample and various illustrations of the same great truth than the most learned ancient could have collected. In England especially, the strong nature of the Saxon shows something Titanic, both in feats of mechanical enterprise and in crime. Note 46 (p. 117). "All-venturing woman's dreadful ire." KL. quotes here the Homeric ὡς ὀυκ ἀινότερον και κύντερον ἀλλο γυναικὸς. "Woman like a dog unblushing deeds of terrible name will do." So a friend who was in Paris, at the time of the Revolution in 1848, wrote to me--"With the men I can easily manage, but _the women are tigers._" Note 47 (p. 117). "Thestios' daughter, wild with rage." Althea, the mother of the famous Calydonian boar-hunter, Meleager, who is so often seen on the sides of ancient sarcophagi. "When Meleager was seven days old, it is said the Fates appeared, declaring that the boy would die, as soon as the piece of wood that was burning on the hearth should be consumed. When Althea heard this, she extinguished the firebrand, and concealed it in a chest. Meleager himself became invulnerable; {367} but when--in the war between the Calydonians and the Curetes--he had unfortunately killed his mother's brother, she lighted the piece of wood, and Meleager died."--_Dict. Biog._ Note 48 (p. 117). "How Scylla, gay, in gold arrayed." The daughter of Nisus, king of Megara, who, when Minos, in his expedition against Athens, took Megara, betrayed the city to the enemy, by cutting off the purple or golden hair which grew on the top of her father's head, and on which his life and the preservation of the city depended.--_Dict. Biog._; _voce_ NISUS, and Virgil Georg. I. 404, and Ovid. Met VIII. 90, quoted here by STAN. Note 49 (p. 118). "O woman! woman! Lemnos saw."