sailor take good courage, and go to his ships, since on this day it behooves us, quitting the hollow recesses of Aulis, to pass over the Ægean wave." But when the whole victim was reduced to ashes, he prayed what was meet, that the army might obtain a passage. And Agamemnon sends me to tell thee this, and to say what a fortune he hath met with from the Gods, and hath obtained unwaning glory through Greece. But I speak, having been present, and witnessing the matter. Thy child has evidently flown to the Gods; away then with grief, and cease wrath against your husband. But the will of the Gods is unforeseen by mortals, and them they love, they save. For this day hath beheld thy daughter dying and living [in turn.] CHOR. How delighted am I at hearing this from the messenger; but he says that thy daughter living abides among the Gods. CLY. O daughter, of whom of the Gods art thou the theft? How shall I address thee? What shall I say that these words do not offer me a vain comfort, that I may cease from my mournful grief on thy account? CHOR. And truly king Agamemnon draws hither, having this same story to tell thee. [_Enter_ AGAMEMNON.] AG. Lady, as far as thy daughter is concerned, we may be happy, for she really possesses a companionship with the Gods. But it behooves thee, taking this young child [Orestes,] to go home, for the army is looking toward setting sail. And fare thee well, long hence will be my addresses to thee from Troy, and may it be well with thee. CHOR. Atrides, rejoicing go thou to the land of the Phrygians, and rejoicing return, having obtained for me most glorious spoils from Troy. * * * * * NOTES ON IPHIGENIA IN AULIS * * * * [1] From the answer of the old man, Porson's conjecture, σπευδε, seems very probable. [2] See Hermann's note. The passage has been thus rendered by Ennius: AG. "Quid nocti" videtur in altisono Cœli clupeo? SEN. Temo superat stellas, cogens Sublime etiam atque etiam noctis Itiner. See Scaliger on Varr. de L.L. vi. p.143, and on Festus s.v. Septemtriones. All the editors have overlooked the following passage of Apuleius de Deo Socr. p. 42, ed. Elm. "Suspicientes in hoc perfectissimo mundi, ut ait Ennius, clypeo," whence, as I have already observed in my notes on the passage, there is little doubt that Ennius wrote "in altisono mundi clypeo," of which _cœli_ was a gloss, naturally introduced by those who were ignorant of the use of _mundus_ in the same sense. The same error has taken place in some of the MSS. of Virg. Georg. i. 5, 6. Compare the commentators on Pompon. Mela. i. 1, ed. Gronov. [3] Such seems the force of επι πασιν αγαθοις. The Cambridge editor aptly compares Hipp. 461. χρην σ' επι ‛ρητοις αρα Πατερα φυτευειν. [4] The συννυμφοκομος was probably a kind of gentleman usher, but we have no correlative either to the custom or the word. [5] Hermann rightly regards this as a hendiadys.