This designation is given to Athens with special reference to the Persian wars; for the Persians destroyed everywhere the temples of the Greek gods (only in the single case of Delos are they said to have made an exception), and the Athenians, in conquering the Persians, saved not only their own lives, but the temples of the gods from destruction. Note 57 (p. 169). "Woe to the wretch, by their wrath smitten." WELL., as usual, is too cautious in not changing μὴ κύρσας into δὴ κύρσας with PAUW and MÜL., or μὴν with LIN. and SCHOE. Note 58 (p. 169). "Not for his own, for guilt inherited." "The sins of the fathers, as in the Old Testament, so also among the Greeks, are visited on the children even to the third and fourth generation; nay, even the idea of original sin, derived from the Titanic men of the early ages, and exhibiting itself as a rebellious inclination against the gods more or less in all--this essentially Christian idea was not altogether unknown to the ancient Greeks."--SCHOEMANN. {386} Note 59 (p. 170). "And, when Hermes is near thee." What we call a "god-send," or a "wind-fall," was called by the Greeks ἓρμαιον, or a thing given by the grace of Hermes. In his original capacity as the patron god of Arcadian shepherds, Hermes was, in like manner, looked on as the giver of patriarchal wealth in the shape of flocks.--Il. xiv. 490. Note 60 (p. 170). "Ye Fates, high-presiding." There is no small difficulty in this passage, from the state of the text; but, unless it be the Furies themselves that are spoken of, as KL. imagines (Theol. p. 45), I cannot think there are any celestial powers to whom the strong language of the Strophe will apply but the Fates. If the former supposition be adopted, we must interrupt the chaunt between Athena and the Furies, putting this Strophe into the mouth of the Areopagites, as, indeed, KL. proposes; but this seems rather a bold measure, and has found no favour. It remains, therefore, only to make such changes in the text as will admit of the application of the whole passage to the Fates, who stand in the closest relation to the Furies, as is evident from Strophe III. of the chorus (p. 146 above). This MÜL. has done; and I follow him, not, however, without desiring some more distinct proof that ματροκασιγνῆται, in Greek, can possibly mean sisters.--See SCHOE.'s note. Note 61 (p. 170). "Jove, that rules the forum, nobly In the high debate hath conquered."