us; 11. Electryon; 12.
Alcmena; 13. Hercules."--Blomfield.

[61] For two ways of supplying the lacuna in this
description of Io's travels, see Dindorf and Paley.

[62] Being turned into stone. Such was the punishment of
the fire-worshipers in the story of the first Lady of
Baghdad. See Arabian Nights, Vol. I., p. 198. The
mythico-geographical allusions in the following lines have
been so fully and so learnedly illustrated, that I shall
content myself with referring to the commentators.

[63] See Linwood's Lexicon and Griffiths' note.

[64] There is still much doubt about the elision [Greek:
esesth', ei]. Others read the passage interrogatively. See
Griffiths and Dindorf.

[65] This pun upon the name of Epaphus is preserved by
Moschus II. 50.

[Greek: en d' en Zeus, epaphomenos erema cheiri theeie
portios Inachies. ten heptaporo para Neilo
ek boos eukeraoio palin metameibe gynaika.]

and Nonnus, III. p. 62, 20:

[Greek: enth' Epaphon dii tikten akerasion hoti kolpon
Inachies damales epaphesato theios akoites
chersin erosaneessi--]

[66] There is much difficulty in this passage. Dindorf
understands [Greek: ekeinon] (AEgypti filiorum), and so
Paley, referring to his notes on Ag. 938, Suppl. 437. Mr.
Jelf, Gk. Gr., Sec. 696, Obs. 3, appears to take the same
view. There does not, therefore, seem any need of
alteration. On the other interpretation sometimes given to
[Greek: phthonon hixei somaton], see Linwood, v. [Greek:
phthonos].

[67] [Greek: sphagaisi] is rightly rendered "in jugulo" by
Blomfield, after Ruhnk. Ep. Crit. I. p. 71. To the
examples quoted add Apul. Met. I. p. 108, "per jugulum
sinistrum capulotenus gladium totum ei demergit," and p.
110, "jugulo ejus vulnus dehiscit in patorem," The
expression [Greek: nyktiphroureto thrasei] is well
illustrated by the words of Nonnus, I. c. p. 64, 17.

[Greek: kai kryphiois xipheessi siderophoron epi lektron
arsena gymnon Area kateunase thelys Enyo].

[68] See Nonnus I. c. Ovid, ep. xiv. 51, sqq.

"Sed timor, et pietas crudelibus obstitit ausis:
Castaque mandatum dextra refugit opus."

[69] On [Greek: sphakelos] see Ruhnk. Tim. p. 123, and
Blomfield.

[70] See Paley. [Greek: a] is never intensive.

[71] On this admonition, generally attributed to Pittacus,
see Griffiths, and for a modern illustration in the
miseries of Sir John An