So Telemachus says to his mother; and on other occasions he uses what we should think, rather sharp and undutiful language--but in Greece a woman who left the woman's chamber without a special and exceptional call {370} subjected herself to just rebuke. With regard to the matter here at issue between Orestes and Clytemnestra, KL. notes that, though the wandering Ulysses is allowed without blame to form an amorous alliance with Calypso, the same excuse is not allowed for the female sitting quietly in her "upper chamber" (ὑπερώιον, Il. II. 514) as Homer has it. For "in ancient times," says the Scholiast to that passage, "the Greeks shut up their women in garrets (ὑπερ τοῦ δυσεντεύκτους ἀυτάς (ἐ)ιναι) _that they might be difficult to get at_."--How Turkish! Note 62 (p. 126). _Orestes_. I have little doubt that KL., PEILE, FR., WELL., and PAL., are right in giving the line ἦ κάρτα μάντις to Orestes. I should be inclined to agree with WELL. and PAL. also, that after this line a verse has dropt out--"_in quo instantem sibi mortem deprecata sit Clytemnestra;_" but there is no need of indicating the supposed blank in the translation, as the sense runs on smoothly enough without it. Note 63 (p. 127). ". . . the eye of this great house, may live." An Oriental expression, to which the magnificent phraseology of our Celestial brother who sells tea, has made the English ear sufficiently familiar. He calls our king, or our consul, I forget which, "the Barbarian eye." Other examples of this style occur in the Persians and the Eumenides.--See p. 172 above. Note 64 (p. 127). "A pair of grim lions, a double Mars terrible." Klausen, who, like other Germans, has a trick, sometimes, of preferring what is far-fetched to what is obvious, considers that this double Mars is the double death, first of Agamemnon in the previous piece, then of Clytemnestra in this; but notwithstanding what he says, the best comment on this passage is that given by the old Scholiast, when he writes "PYLADES and ORESTES." Note 65 (p. 127). "Sore chastisement." ποινὰ. AHRENS, with great boldness, changes this into Ἐρμᾶς, which reading has been rashly thrown into the text by FR. If any special allusion is needed, I agree with PAL. that Orestes is indicated, who is mentioned in the next clause as inflicting the blow, under the guidance of celestial Justice. Note 66 (p. 127). "Her from his shrine sent the rock-throned Apollo." In this corrupt passage I adopt HERMANN's correction of τάν περ for τάπέρ. How much the whole meaning is guesswork, the reader may see, by comparing my translation with POT. and the E. P. Oxon., in this place, who follow the old Scholiast in referring χρονισθ(ε)ισαυ to Clytemnestra. Note 67 (p. 127). "And blithely shall welcome them Fortune the fairest." This passage being very corrupt, is rendered freely. I adopt STAN.'s conjecture ἰδεῖν ἀκοῦσαι θ᾽ ἱεμενοις, and suppose μέτοικοι to refer to Orestes and Electra.