Note 3. Page 3.
Strong is the tie of kindred and of friendship.
See the Andromache, vs. 986. τὸ ξυγγενὲς γὰρ δεινόν.
Note 4. Page 4.
Every thing
Is full of sorrow, save to rule the gods.
I have preferred Blomfield's ἐπαχθῆ to ἐπράχθη.
Note 5. Page 8.
The ferule-treasured secret fount of fire.
Τὴν ωάρθηκι θησαυρισθεῐσαν, says Hesychius. The ferule was hollow, and capable of containing fire.
Note 6. Page 9.
And rush'd I shoonless on my wingëd car.
Bishop Blomfield considers the word shoonless as being expressive of extreme haste; and he quotes several passages from ancient writers as illustrative of this view. With regard to his quotation from Bion's elegy—
ἀνὰ δρυμὼς ἀλάληται
Πενυαλέα νήπλεκτος ἀσάνδαλος.
it might be observed, with submission, that the word ἀσάνδαλος appears to indicate the negligence of sorrow rather than of haste.
