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thy calamity Shall be my teacher.

See the Medea, vs. 1200.

The introduction of Arabia in this place has been a wonder among critics. Butler explains it by extending its boundary; and a learned writer, in the Edinburgh Review, perhaps more satisfactorily, by limiting Æschylus's geographical information.

Men seeing, saw in vain; and did not hear, Hearing.

The twenty-first verse of the fifth chapter of Jeremiah is suggested to us by this passage in a profane writer. The resemblance can scarcely be accidental.

See Apollonius Rhodius, lib. i. vs. 490.