_Electra_. WELL. is very imperative in taking these words out of Electra's mouth, and giving them to some other person, he does not exactly know who; but, though she left the stage before, there is no reason why she should not come back; and, in fact, she is just doing what she ought to do in appearing here, and carrying on the deception. Note 54 (p. 120). "Is audited at nothing." The passage is corrupt. I read παρ᾽ ὀυδέν, with Blomfield. 'Tis certainly difficult to say whether βακχείας καλης should be made to depend on ἐλπὶς, as I have made it, or being changed into κακης, be referred to Clytemnestra. Note 55 (p. 120). ". . . suasive wile, and smooth deceit!" The reader need hardly be reminded that these qualities, so necessary to the present transaction, render the invocation (in the next line) peculiarly necessary of the god, who was the recognised patron of thieves, and of whom the Roman lyrist, in a well-known ode sings-- "Te boves olim nisi reddidisses Per dolum amotas puerum minaci Voce dum terret, viduus pharetra Risit Apollo." Note 56 (p. 120). "The nightly courier of the dead." τὸν νύχιον. That there is a great propriety in the epithet _nightly_, as applied to Mercury, both in respect of his general function as πομπᾶιος, or leader of the dead through the realms of night, and in respect of the particular business now in hand, and the particular time of the action, is obvious. In spite of some grammatical objections, therefore, I cannot but think it far-fetched in BLOM. and PEILE to refer the epithet to Orestes. Were I editing the text I should be very much inclined to follow HERM. and PAL. in putting καὶ τὸν νύχιον within brackets, as perhaps a gloss. Note 57 (p. 122). "The bearer of a tale can make it wear What face he pleases." I translate thus generally, in order to avoid the necessity of settling the point whether κυπτὸς or κρυπτὸς is the proper reading--a point, however, of little consequence to the translator of Æschylus, as the Venetian Scholiast to Il. O. 207 has been triumphantly brought forward to prove the real meaning of this otherwise corrupt and unintelligible verse. POT. was not in a condition to get hold of the true text--so he has given the best version he could of what he had-- "_For the mind catches from the messenger_ _A secret elevation and bold swell,_" evidently from the reading of PAW.-- {369} ἐν ὰγγελῳ γὰρ κρυπτὸς ὠρθωθῃ φρενὶ _animo enim clam erigatur nuntio isto._ --See BUTLER's Notes. Note 58 (p. 122).