[33] i.e. of Parnassus.  Elmsley (after Stanl. on AEsch.  Eum. 22.) remarks that [Greek:  Korykis petra] means the Corycian cave in Parnassus, [Greek:  Korykiai koryphai], the heights of Parnassus.

[34] Hermann and Dindorf correct [Greek:  Loidian] from Herodot. vii. 127.

[35] The earth and buildings were supposed to shake at the presence of a deity.  Cf.  Callimach.  Hymn.  Apol. sub init.  Virg.  AEn. iii. 90; vi. 255.  For the present instance Nonnus, 45. p. 751.

[Greek:  ede d’ autoeliktos eseieto Pentheos aule,] [Greek:  aklineon sphairedon anaissousa themethlon,] [Greek:  kai poleon dedoneto thoron enosichthoni palmoi] [Greek:  pematos essomenoio proangelos.]

[36] The madness of Ajax led to a similar delusion.  Cf.  Soph.  Aj. 56 sqq.

[37] Compare a fragment of Didymus apud Macrob.  Sat. v. 18, who states [Greek:  Acheloon pan hydor Euripides phesin en Hypsipylei].  See also comm. on Virg.  Georg. i. 9.

[38] The reader of Scott will call to mind the fine description of Ireton lunging at the air, in a paroxysm of fanatic raving.  See “Woodstock.”  So also Orestes in Iph.  Taur. 296 sqq.

[39] [Greek:  aneisan], solvuntur, liquescunt. BRODEUS.

[40] Cf.  Soph Ant. 243 sqq.

[41] These two cities were in ruins in the time of Pausanias.  See ix. 3. p. 714, ed.  Kuhn.

[42] Cf.  Athenaeus, p. 40.  B. Terent.  Eun. iv. 5.  “Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus.”  Apul Met. ii. p. 119, ed.  Elm.  “Ecce, inquam, Veneris hortator et armiger Liber advenit ultro,” where see Pricaeus.

[43] More literally, perhaps, “keep it and be thankful.”

[44] Theocrit. i. 40. [Greek:  mega diktyon es bolon helkei].

[45] But [Greek:  ek ton apeilon] conveys a notion of change = instead of.

[46] Elmsley remarks that [Greek:  anthropoisi] belongs to both members of the sentence.  I have therefore supplied.  The sense may be illustrated from Hippol. 5 sq.

[47] See Matthiae.

[48] i.e. step.  This is ridiculed by Aristoph.  Ran. 100, where the Scholiast quotes a similar example from our author’s Alexandra.

[49] Compare Havercamp on Lucret. ii. sub init.

[50] Compare Virgil, AEn. iv. 469.  “Et solem geminum, et duplices se ostendere Thebas.”  In the second passage of Clemens Alexandrinus quoted by Elmsley, [Greek:  geron] is probably a mistaken reference to Tiresias.

[51] An obscure hint at the impending fate of Pentheus.  Nonnus has led the way to the catastrophe by a graphic description of Agave’s dream.  Dionys. 45. p. 751.

[52] [Greek:  pheromenos] may mean either “carried in a litter,” or “carried to burial.”  There is a somewhat similar play in the epigram of Ausonius, xxiii.  “Mater Lacaena clypeo obarmans filium, cum hoc, inquit, aut in hoc, redi.”

[53] Burges more rightly reads [Greek:  matros te Gas].  See Elmsley’s note.