Note 21. Page 50.
Beware of Jove's sharp-mouth'd, unbarking dogs.
Erfurdt has justly observed, that the Greek poets have called the most fearful monsters dogs. In this place griffins are called dogs; a little further on, and in the Agamemnon, eagles are called dogs; in the Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, the sphinx is called a dog; in the Hercules Furens of Euripides, the hydra is called a dog; in the Electra, both of Sophocles and Euripides, the Furies are called dogs; in Apollonius Rhodius, the Harpies are called dogs; in the Andromache of Euripides, (what a climax!) a woman is called a dog; and Synesius goes a step higher, and calls the Devil a dog: in short, Brutus did not know the strength of his own expression when he said that he would "rather be a dog."
Note 22. Page 51.
Cleft ground, where from the hills of Byblinus.
Bishop Blomfield supposes the poet to be here speaking of the Catadupa of the Nile, where that river is precipitated from the mountains.
Note 23. Page 58.
Wise are the worshippers of Adrastia.
Bishop Blomfield notices this word in a learned and interesting manner in his Glossary. He observes that Adrastia is to be iden-
