"_Nam regibus boni quam mali suspectiores sunt, semperque his aliena virtus formidolosa est._"--Sall. Cat. VII. "In princes fear is stronger than love; therefore it is often more difficult for them to tear themselves from persons whom they hate than to cast off persons whom they love."--RICHTER (Titan). Note 19 (p. 189). "I only of the gods Thwarted his will." This is one of the passages which has suggested to many minds a comparison between the mythical tortures of the Caucasus and the real agonies of Calvary. The analogy is just so far; only the Greek imagination never could look on Prometheus as suffering altogether without just cause; he suffered for his own sins. This TOEPEL. p. 71, has well expressed thus--"_Prometheus deos laesit ut homines bearet: Christus homines beavit ut suae, Deique patris obsecundaret voluntati._" {392} Note 20 (p. 189). ". . . in cunning torment stretched." ἀνηλεῶς ἐῤῥύθμισμαι--"_so bin ich zugerichtet_."--PASSOW. A sort of studious malignity is here indicated. So we say allegorically to _trim_ one handsomely, to _dress_ him, when we mean to _punish_. The frequent use of this verb ρυθμίζω is characteristic of the Greeks, than whom no people, as has been frequently remarked, seem to have possessed a nicer sense of the beauty of measure and the propriety of limitation in their poetry and works of art. So Sophocles, Antig. 318, has ρυθμίζειν λύπην. Note 21 (p. 190). "Blind hopes of good I planted In their dark breasts." A striking phrase, meaning, however, nothing more, I imagine, according to the use of the Greek writers (and also of the Latins with _caecus_) than _dim_, _indistinct_; neither, indeed, is the phrase foreign to our colloquial English idiom--"The swearing to a _blind_ etcetera they (the Puritans) looked upon as intolerable."--Calamy's Life of Baxter. In the well-known story of Pandora, Hesiod relates that, when the lid of the fatal box was opened, innumerable plagues flew out, only HOPE remained within.--_Works and Days_, 84. Note 22 (p. 190). "And flame-faced fire is now enjoyed by mortals?" Lieutenant-Colonel Collins, in his account of New South Wales (London, 1804), mentions that the wild natives produced fire with much difficulty, and preserved it with the greatest care. The original inhabitants of New Holland, and the wild African bushmen described by Moffat, the missionary, are among the lowest specimens of human nature with which we are acquainted. As for Æschylus, it is evident he follows in this whole piece the notion of primitive humanity given in his introductory chapters by Diodorus, and generally received amongst the ancients, viz., that the fathers of our race were the most weak and helpless creatures imaginable, like the famous Egyptian frogs, as it were, only half developed from the primeval slime. Note 23 (p. 191).