[4] [Greek:  dous—­dynatai de kai apodous].  SCHOL.

[5] Perhaps this interpretation of [Greek:  chronion] is better than “slow,” for the considerate Electra would hardly go to remind her brother of his infirmities.

[6] [Greek:  Potniades].  The Furies have this epithet from Potnia, a town in Boeotia, where Glaucus’s horses, having eaten of a certain herb and becoming mad, tore their own master in pieces.  SCHOL.

[6a] Note [D].

[6b] Dindorf would omit this verse.

[7] [Greek:  halitypon, halieon, hoi tais kopais typtousi ten thalassan].  SCHOL.

[8] [Greek:  aphyllou].  Alluding to the branch, which the ancients used to hold in token of supplication.

[9] “[Greek:  kata ten nykta pepontha teron ten anairesin, kai ten analepsin ton osteon, toutestin, hina me tis apheletai tauta].”  PARAPH.  Heath translates it, watchfully observing, till her bones were collected.

[10] The old reading was [Greek:  apaideuta].  The meaning of the present reading seems to be, “Yes, they are awful ’tis true, but still however you need not be so very scrupulous about naming them.”

[11] [Greek:  anaphora] was a legal term, and signified the line of defense adopted by the accused, when he transferred the charge brought against himself to some other person.—­See Demosthenes in Timocr.

[12] Oeax was Palamede’s brother.

[13] And therefore we are not to impeach the man.  Some would have [Greek:  doulon] to bear the sense of [Greek:  doulopoion], enslaves, and therefore can not be avoided.

[14] [Greek:  echo] for [Greek:  enochos eimi].

[15] [Greek:  Zelo, to makarizo. entautha de anti tou epaino.] SCHOL.

[16] Conf.  Ter.  Eun.  Act. v.  Sc. 2.

                  Non dedignum, Chaerea,
  Fecisti; nam si ego digna hac contumelia
  Sum maxume, at tu indignus, qui faceres, tamen.

[16a] Note [E].

[17] Of this passage the Scholiast gives two interpretations; either it may mean [Greek:  meta dakryon kai goon eipon]:  or, [Greek:  eipon tauta eis dakrya kai goous, kai xymphoras, egoun hina me tycho, touton:  teuxomai de, ei petrothenai me easeis].

[18] "Beyond any woman," [Greek:  gyne mia], this is a mode of expression frequently met with in the Attic writers, especially in Xenophon.

[19] [Greek:  epi toi phonoi, toutesti dia ton phonon, hon eirgasametha.] PARAPH.

[20] Thyestes and Atreus, having a dispute about their father Pelops’s kingdom, agreed, that whichever should discover the first prodigy should have possession of the throne.  There appeared in Atreus’s flock a golden lamb, which, however, AErope his wife secretly had conveyed to Thyestes to show before the judges.  Atreus afterward invited Thyestes to a feast, and served up before him Aglaiis, Orchomenus, and Caleus, three sons he had by his intrigues with AErope.