Perhaps the shoonless state of the sea-nymphs is to be attributed to an agitation arising from both causes: at least, it may be more poetical to think so.
Note 7. Page 21.
———kick against the goad.
τρὸς κέντρα κῶλον ἐκτενεῖς. This proverb occurs also, and more exactly in the words of Scripture, in the Agamemnon, vs. 1614. τρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκιζε. Also in Pindar, Pyth. ii. 173. and Euripides, Fragm. Peliad.
Note 8. Page 22.
No, in good truth; upon my heart, the fate.
Before the time of Elmsley, this was the opening line to a speech of Oceanus. With admirable judgment, he removed the landmark; and restored one of the sublimest passages of poetry to lips most worthy to pronounce it,—to the lips of Prometheus.
Note 9. Page 22.
———him o' the hundred heads.
In a fragment of Pindar, preserved by Strabo, Typhon is represented as having only fifty heads: but it seems to be thought corrupted. See Julian's fourth letter. He is called "hundred-headed" in the 1st and 8th Pythian.
