Note 10. Page 25.
———thy calamity
Shall be my teacher.
See the Medea, vs. 1200.
Τύχην γὰρ εἳχομεν διδάσκαλον
Note 11. Page 27.
And Arabia's battle-crown.
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.
Note 12. Page 29.
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.
Note 13. Page 29.
To them, of winter shone no certain sign.
See Apollonius Rhodius, lib. i. vs. 490.
Ήδ᾽ ὡς ἒμπεδον αἰὲν ἐν αἰθέρι τέκμαρ ἒχουσιν
Άσρα, σεληναίη τε, καὶ ἡέλιοιο κέλενθοι.
