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 gift made to him, and set off to take possession of Delphi.

P. 2, l. 19. Literally: "Loxias is the forth-shower (prophêtês) of Zeus the Father": Loxias is the special title of Phoebus Apollo as prophet: the line is important for the understanding of the play.

P. 2, l. 24. Bromios and Pentheus: the story is given in the Bacchae of Euripides.

P. 3, l. 40. "Blood on his hand, etc.": as if he had come straight from the murder. To inquire why the blood is still wet, and to explain that it is only the blood of swine killed in purification (ll. 284, 450), is to treat the matter too realistically.

P. 3, ll. 47 ff. This account prepares the audience for the appearance of the Erînyes, who had apparently not been represented on the stage before. They are not exactly like the Gorgons, nor yet like the winged Harpies who swept away Phineus' food.

P. 3, l. 64. . We do not know how the inner shrine was shown, whether by wide doors or by the drawing of a curtain.

P. 4, l. 71. "Born for wickedness and sorrow": i.e. they exist for the punishment of sin, and nothing else. But see Introduction, p. vi f.

P. 4, l. 79. The City of Pallas is Athens, her Rock the Acropolis.

P. 4, l. 90. Hermes: he is not present, but is invoked as the regular Guide of the Wanderer. "Zeus pitieth, etc.": this is the essential doctrine of the play.

P. 5, ll. 94 ff. The Ghost. The Ghost is a Dream, and vanishes as the Furies wake. This does