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 be attributed the conclusion of Io's next speech. I confess my inability to feel the full force of this remark, or indeed to see any necessary connection between the two passages. Io, in her next speech, has become aware of Prometheus's superior wisdom, and her whole object is to profit by it.

In a fragment of the Prometheus Solutus preserved in the translation of Attius, a line occurs very similar to this:—

Saturnius me sic infixit Jupiter, Jovisque numen Mulcibri ascivit manus.

Bishop Blomfield has received Canter's into his text; but he mentions in a note, a conjecture, which "nuper in mentem venit," and "magis placet,"—. It pleases me much more: it is picturesque, and varies the scene; and as we are just now looking at "Cenchrea's pleasant wave," nobody can be solicitous about having "Lerne's fount" besides—. Butler and Scholefield retain : and the latter observes in a note, that it is an allusion to the rocks hanging over Lerne. He seems, however, to doubt the accuracy of the reading.