Note 18. Page 48.
The third in generation after ten.
Bishop Blomfield has enumerated thirteen:—Epaphus, Libya, Belus, Danaus, Hypermnestra, Abas, Prœtus, Acrisius, Danae, Perseus, Electryon, Alcmena, and Hercules the Deliverer. The predicted spouse, whose son was to be superior to his father, was Thetis. In submission to the prophecy, she married Peleus instead of Jupiter, and her Achilles fulfilled it.
Note 19. Page 49.
Which in the book-memorial of thy mind.
See the opening of the tenth Olymp., and Sophocles's Θὲς δ᾽ ἐν φρενὸς δέλτοισι τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους. Parallel thoughts respecting the tablet of Hamlet's memory will be written upon the reader's.
Note 20. Page 50.
The Gorgons, serpent-hair'd, and man-abhorr'd.
The Pythian priestess exclaims, in her powerful description of the Furies (vide Eumenid. vs. 48.) "οὒτοι γυναῖκας, ἀλλὰ Γοργόνας λέγω." It may therefore be humbly conjectured that Gorgons had some kind of horrible family likeness to Furies;—an honor, to which the priestess will by no means admit Harpies.
