So I have thought it best to translate somewhat freely τὸνδε βουκολούμενος πόνον in order to express the original meaning of the verb βουκολουμαι. In this I have followed MÜLLER--_diese Schmerzentrift zu weiden._ This is surely more pregnant and poetical than to say with FR. "_Diese Lebensbahn durcheilend._" The idea of _soothing_ and _beguiling_, the only one given by {376} Hesychius, cannot apply to this place. PAL., who agrees with me in this, translates the word in both places of our author where it occurs (here and in Agam. 655) by "_brooding over_" which differs little from my idea of _feeding on_. Note 14 (p. 143). "Her ancient image." "The image of Athena Pallas, on the citadel, which existed in the days of Pausanias, and had maintained for ages its place here by a sort of inviolable holiness. In the narrow area of the temple, on the north-east slope of the Acropolis, Erechtheus had placed a carved image, either first made by himself, or, perhaps, fallen from Heaven; and round this, as a centre, the most ancient groups of Attic religion and legend assembled themselves."--GERHARD, "_über die Minerven Idole Athen's,_" quoted by SCHOE. Note 15 (p. 144). "Behold these wounds." I am not able to see what objection lies against the literal rendering of ὁρά δε πληγὰς τάσδε καρδίᾴ σέθεν, as I read with FR. and LINW. PAL. and SCHOE. take πληγὰς metaphorically to signify the contumelious language used by Clytemnestra to the Furies; but this is surely rather going out of the way. If there were any necessity for deserting the literal meaning, I would rather take Hermann's way of turning it (Opusc. VI. v. 2, p. 28), and read-- ὁρά δε πληγὰς τάσδε καρδιάς ὃθεν. _Siehe diese Wunden meines Herzens woher sie kommen!_ Note 16 (p. 144). "Read with thy heart; some things the soul may scan More clearly, when the sensuous lid hath dropt, Nor garish day confounds." This method of speaking is quite in keeping with ancient ideas on the nature of the connection 'twixt mind and body, as SCHOE. has proved from Galen (Kühn. Med. gr. V. 301). As to the sentiment which follows, STAN. has quoted--"_Quum ergo est somno sevocatus animus a societate et a contagione corporis, tum meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura providet_"--Cic. Divinat. I. 30. According to Aelian (var. hist. III. 11). the Peripatetics held the same opinion. Note 17 (p. 144). "Once Clytemnestra famous, now a dream." There is another translation of this passage--the old one in STAN.-- "_In somno enim vos nunc Clytemnestra voco,_"