P. 47. 1. 10.

One Saguntum.

The ancient siege of Saguntum has been now rivalled by Zaragoza. The author is happy to refer his readers to the interesting narrative of his friend, Mr. Vaughan.

P. 47. I. 16.

Bethulia's matron.

Judith.

P. 48. 1. 6.

Who treads the wine-press of the world alone.

"I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people "there was none with me, for I will tread them in mine anger, " and trample them in my fury."-Isaiah lxiii. 3.

NOTES ON THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.

P. 55. 1. 20.

Siwah. Oasis. Sennaar.-Meroe.

P. 56. 1. 4.
Shangalla.

The black tribes, whom Bruce considers as the aboriginal Nubians, are so called. For their gigantic stature, and their custom of ornamenting themselves and their houses with the spoils of the elephant, see the account he gives of the person and residence of one of their chiefs, whom he visited on his departure from Ras el Feel.

P. 56. 1. 9.

Emeralds.

The emerald, or whatever the ancients dignified by the name of smaragdus, is said to have been found in great quantities in the mountain now called Gebel Zumrud (the mount of emeralds.)

P. 59. I. 17.

Elim's well.

It is interesting to observe with what pleasure and minuteness Moses, amid the Arabian wilderness, enumerates the "twelve wells of water," and the "threescore and ten palmtrees," of Elim.

The fourth, with that tormented three.

THE three were Sisyphus, Tityus, and Ixion. The author of the Odyssey, or, at least, of that passage which describes the punishments of Tantalus, assigns him an eternity of hunger, thirst, and disappointment. Which of these opinions is most ancient, is neither very easy nor very material to decide. The impending rock of Pindar is perhaps a less appropriate, but surely a more picturesque mode of punishment.

P. 69. 1. 6.

Car-borne Pisa's royal maid.

Enomaus king of Pisa had promised his daughter, the heiress of his states, in marriage to any warrior who should excel him in the chariot race, on condition, however, that the candidates should stake their lives on the issue.

essayed and perished before Pelops.

P. 71. 1. 13.

Sleeps beneath the piled ground.

Thirteen had

Like all other very early tombs, the monument of Pelops was a barrow or earthen mound. I know not whether it may

still be traced. The spot is very accurately pointed out, and such works are not easily obliterated.

P. 72. 1. 17.

God, who beholdeth thee and all thy deeds.

The solemnity of this prayer contrasted with its object, that Hiero might again succeed in the chariot race, is ridiculous to modern ears. I do not indeed believe that the Olympic and other games had so much importance attached to them by the statesmen and warriors of Greece, as is pretended by the sophists of later ages; but where the manners are most simple, public exhibitions, it should be remembered, are always most highly estimated, and religious prejudice combined with the ostentation of wealth to give distinction to the Olympic con

tests.

P. 74. I. 11.

The flower of no ignoble race.

Theron was a descendant of Edipus, and consequently of Cadmus. His family had, through a long line of ancestors, been remarkable, both in Greece and Sicily, for misfortune; and he was himself unpopular with his subjects and engaged in civil war. Allusions to these circumstances often occur in

the present ode.

66

P. 79. 1. 16.

He whom none may name.

In the original 66 τις," a certain nameless person." The ancients were often scrupulous about pronouncing the names of their gods, particularly those who presided over the region of future hopes and fears; a scruple corresponding with the

Rabbinical notions of the ineffable word. The pictures which follow present a striking discrepancy to the mythology of Homer, and of the general herd of Grecian poets, whose Zeus is as far inferior to the one supreme divinity of Pindar, as the religion of Pindar himself falls short of the clearness and majesty of Revelation. The connection of these Eleusinian doctrines with those of Hindustan, is in many points sufficiently striking. Southey and Pindar might seem to have drunk at the same source.

P. 81. 1. 18.

Nor Jove has Thetis' prayer denied.

I know not why, except for his brutality to the body of Hector, Achilles is admitted with so much difficulty into the islands of the blessed. That this was considered in the time of Pindar as sufficient to exclude him without particular intercession, shews at least that a great advance had been made in moral feeling since the days of Homer.

P. 82. 1. 14.

-Train'd in study's formal hour,

There are who hate the minstrel's power.

It was not likely that Pindar's peculiarities should escape criticism, nor was his temper such as to bear it with a very even mind. He treats his rivals and assailants with at least a sufficient portion of disdain, as servile adherents to rule, and mere students without genius. Some of their sarcasms passed,

however, into proverbs. "Atos Kopivos," an expression in Διος Κορινθος,”

ridicule of Pindar's perpetual recurrence to mythology and

antiquities, is preserved in the Phodon; while his occasional