3 P. 195, l. 654. _Frees him for ever._ His last contest brings his final deliverance. 4 P. 201, l. 860. _From Love's dread minister,_ i.e. from Aphrodite, working through the concealed and silent Iole. PHILOCTETES. 1 P. 222, l. 194. _Through Chrysa's cruel sting._ Chrysa was an island near the Troad, sacred to a goddess of the name. Her precinct was guarded by a serpent, whose bite, from which Philoctetes suffered, was incurable. See below p. 254, l. 1327. 2 P. 226, l. 344. _The fosterer of my sire._ Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles. 3 P. 227, l. 351. _For I ne'er | Had seen him._ The legend which makes Achilles go to Troy from Scyros is probably ignored. 4 l. 384. _Vile offset of an evil tree._ Alluding to the supposed birth of Odysseus. See on Ai., l. 190, p. 60 [sic. should be p. 49]. 5 P. 230, l. 489. _Of old Chalcodon._ One of the former generation, a friend and neighbour of Poeas the father of Philoctetes. 6 P. 237, l. 729. _Of him, whose home is in the skies._ Heracles, imagined as transfigured on Mount Oeta. 7 P. 254, l. 1328. _The sky-roofed fold._ The open precinct that was sacred to the goddess, merely surrounded by a wall. See above, note on p. 222, l. 194. 8 P. 255, l. 1333. _Phoebus' child._ Asclepius. OEDIPUS AT COLONOS. 1 P. 265, l. 158. _Mingles with draughts,_ &c. Where libations are mixed of water and honey. 2 P. 288, l. 888. _The God._ Poseidon. See above, p. 282 [sic. should be p. 262], l. 55. 3 P. 306, l. 1525. _neighbouring._ [Greek: geitonon] (the participle). 4 l. 1534. _The dragon-brood._ The Cadmeian race at Thebes, sprung from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus. N.B.--For other questionable points the student is referred to the small edition of _Sophocles_, by Campbell and Abbott (2 vols., Clarendon Press, 1900). Oxford: HORACE HART, Printer to the University. End of Project Gutenberg's The Seven Plays in English Verse, by Sophocles