CHORUS. For the arrangement of this Chorus I refer the reader back to what I said on the previous one. The concluding part I have here arranged as an Epode, because it seems more continuous in its idea than what precedes--less violent and exclamatory. Note 26 (p. 150). "On Libyan plains beside Tritonian pools." Æschylus here follows the tradition of Apollodorus (I. 3, § 6), that the epithet Τριτογένεια, given by Homer to Pallas, was derived from the lake Tritonis in Libya, near which she is said to have been born. Compare Virgil Æn. IV. 480. Note 27 (p. 150). ". . . with forward foot firm planted, Erect, or with decorous stole high-seated." I have not the slightest doubt that τίθησιν (ο)ρθὸν πόδα in this passage can only mean to _plant the foot down firmly and stand erect_; if so, τίθησι κατηρεφῆ πόδα can only mean to _sit_, "the feet being covered by the robes while {379} sitting"--LIN.; so also PAL. and SCHOE. Sitting statues of the gods were very common in ancient times, as we see in the Egyptian statues, and in the common representations of the Greek and Roman Jupiter (see Thirlwall's History of Greece, c. VI.). I am sorry that Hermann (p. 57) should have thrown out the idea that κατηρεφῆς in this passage may mean "enveloped in clouds," which has been taken up by Franz-- "Sichtbar sic jezt herschreitet, oder Wolkumhüllt," because manifestly κατηρεφῆς, in this sense, forms no natural contrast to ὀρθὸς. The "_forward foot firm-planted_," I have taken from Müller's note, p. 112, as, perhaps, pointing out more fully what may have been in the poet's eye, without, however, meaning to assert seriously against a severe critic like Hermann, that the words of the text necessarily imply anything of the kind. Note 28 (p. 150). "The ordered battle on Phlegrean fields Thou musterest." The peninsula of Pallene in Macedonia, as also the district of Campania about Baiæ and Cumae, were called Phlegraean, or _fire-fields_ (φλέγω), in all likelihood from the volcanic nature of the country, to which Strabo (Lib. V. p. 245) alludes. These volcanic movements in the religious symbolism of early Greece became giants; and against these the Supreme Wisdom and his wise daughter had to carry on a war worthy of gods. Note 29 (p. 151).