[187] _East, West, and South, and North._] Le Clerc and the generality of editors suppose Hesiod to omit the east-wind entirely: and consider αργεστεω as an epithet, signifying _swift_ or _serene_: as the term is so used by Homer. Grævius quotes a subsequent line of the Theogony as authority for αργεστης being so used by Hesiod also: but there is evidence for αργεστης being the name of a wind; though Aulus Gellius and Pliny suppose it to be a west-wind, called by the Latins Caurus. Aristotle also, as is observed by the Monthly Reviewer, describes the αργεστης as a westerly wind, which blows from that part of the heaven in which the sun sets at the summer solstice: and adds that by some it is called Olympias, by others Iapyx. We see however from this very passage of Aristotle, that the names of winds were capricious and arbitrary: and in fact almost every district in Greece called the winds by names different from those which the neighbouring district used. The same critic observes that in a note to the word σκειροιν (Caurus), in Alberti’s edition of Hesychius, an opinion is intimated that αργεστης is properly an easterly wind, απηλιωτης ανεμος: nor can there be the least doubt of the matter, in so far as regards Hesiod. The London Reviewer, indeed, remarks that “the omission of the wind would be no proof of Hesiod’s ignorance of its existence”: a similar omission occurs in the Psalms. “Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor the west, nor yet from the south.” But it is forgotten that Hesiod is describing the genealogy of the winds: and it is very inconceivable that one of the four cardinal winds should have escaped his notice. The editions of Stephens and Trincavellus read Νοσφι Νοτου, Βορεω τε, και Αργεστου, Ζεφυρου τε: instead of αργεστεω Ζεφιροιο: and I have no doubt that this is the true reading. [188] _Not apart from Jove_ _Their mansion is._] So Callimachus, Hymn to Jupiter: No lots have made thee king above all gods: But works of thy own hands: thy Strength and Force, Whom thou hast, therefore, station’d next thy throne. Strength and Force are introduced by Æschylus as characters, in the first scene of his “Prometheus Chained.” [189] _Asteria, blest in fame._] According to Callimachus Asteria was metamorphosed into the Isle of Delos: a term which alludes to its appearing after having been submerged in the sea: δηλος, _visible_. Asteria is from αστηρ a star. Asteria was thy name Of old: since like a star from heaven on high Thou didst leap down precipitate within A fathomless abyss of waters, flying From nuptial violence of Jove. HYMN TO DELOS. [190] _She conceived_ _With Hecaté._]