"Alluding to Admetus, son of Pheres, whom Apollo raised from the dead, having obtained this boon from the Fates, on condition that some one should die in his stead.--See the well-known play of Euripides, the Alcestes."--STAN. The Scholiast on that play, v. 12, as Dindorf notes, remarks that, on this occasion, Apollo moved the inflexible goddesses by the potent influence of wine. This is alluded to a few lines below. Note 51 (p. 164). ". . . all my father lives in me." κάρτα δ᾽ ειμι τοῦ πατρος; specially wisdom and energy.--So Milton-- "All my father shines in me."--Paradise Lost, VII. Compare the Homeric epithet of Pallas ὁβριμοπάτρη with Nägelsbach's Comprehensive Commentary--Hom. Theologie, p. 100. {385} Note 52 (p. 164). _Apollo_, FR., who examined the Medicean Codex, says that there is here discernible the mark which introduces a new speaker. Who that speaker is, however, the sense does not allow us to decide; but Orestes and the Chorus having spoken, I do not see why Apollo, who showed such eagerness before, should not now also, put in his word; and, therefore, deserting WELL., I follow the old arrangement of VICT. and STAN. Note 53 (p. 167). "Sharing alone the strong keys that unlock His thunder-halls." As Pallas possesses all her father's characteristic qualities of wisdom and strength, so she is entitled to wield all his instruments, and even the thunder. STAN. quotes-- "Ipsa (Pallas) Jovis rapidum jaculata e nubibus ignem."--Virgil, ÆN. I. 46. And Wakefield compares CALLIM, Lavac. Pall, 132. So the _aegis_, or _shield of dark-rushing storms_ (ἀισσω), belongs to Pallas no less than to Zeus (Il. V. 738). Note 54 (p. 167). ". . . thou shalt hold An honoured seat beside Erectheus' home." Erectheus, who, as his name signifies (ἔραζε, _Eretz_, Heb., _Erde_, Teut., _Earth_), was the earth-born, or Adam of Attic legend, had a temple on the Acropolis, beside the temple of the city-protecting (πολιάς) Pallas, of which the ruins yet remain. The cave of the Furies was on the Hill of Mars, directly opposite.--See Introductory Remarks. Note 55 (p. 168). ". . . save my city From brothered strife, and from domestic brawls." It was a principle with the Romans that no victory in a civil war should be followed by a triumph; and, accordingly, in the famous triumph of Julius Cæsar, which lasted three days, there was nothing to remind the Roman eye that the conqueror of Pharsalia had ever plucked a leaf from Pompey's laurels. In v. 826, I read with MÜL. ὀυ δόμοις παρων, the present reading, μόλις, being clumsy any way that I have seen it translated. Note 56 (p. 169). "The fortress of gods."