7 P. 34, l. 1120. The all-gathering bosom wide. The plain of
  Eleusis, where mysteries were held in honour of Deo or Demeter.

8 P. 39, l. 1301.  Reading [Greek:  oxuthekto ... perixiphei].

9 l. 1303. The glorious bed of buried Megareus. Megareus, son of
  Creon and Eurydice, sacrificed himself for Thebes by falling into a
  deep cave called the Dragon’s Lair.

AIAS.

1 P. 48, l. 172. Her blood-stained temple. In some of her temples
  Artemis was worshipped with sacrifices of bulls, and, according to
  an old tradition, also with human sacrifices.

2 P. 49. l. 190. The brood of Sisyphus. Amongst his enemies,
  Odysseus was reputed to be the offspring of Sisyphus and not of
  Laertes.

3 P. 59, l. 574. Named of the shield. Eurysakes means Broadshield.

4 P. 71, l. 1011. Who smiles no more. Compare a fragment of the
  Teucer of Sophocles (519, Nauck),

            ’How vain then, O my son,

How vain was my delight in thy proud fame,
While I supposed thee living!  The fell Fury
From her dark shroud beguiled me with sweet lies.’

KING OEDIPUS.

1 P. 86, l. 36. That stern songstress. The Sphinx.  See also
  ‘minstrel hound.’

2 P. 96, l. 402. Will hunt | Pollution forth. The party cry of
  ‘driving out the pollution’ was raised against the Alcmaeonidae and
  other families in Athens, who were supposed to lie under a
  traditional curse.

3 P. 99. l. 525. Who durst declare it. [Greek:  Tou pros d’
  ephanthe].  Though the emphatic order of words is unusual, this seems
  more forcible than the var. [Greek:  toupos d’ ephanthe].

4 P. 102, l. 625. [CR. You’ll ne’er relent nor listen to my plea.] A
  line has here been lost in the original.

5 P. 113, l. 1025. Your purchase or your child? Oedipus is not to be
  supposed to have weighed the import of the Corinthian shepherd’s
  words, ‘Nor I nor he,’ &c., supra.

6 P. 128. l. 1526. His envied fortune mounted beaming. Reading
  [Greek:  en zelo politon] (with 2 MSS) and [Greek:  epiphlegon] from
  my conjecture.

ELECTRA.

1 P. 131, l. 6. The wolf-slaying God. Apollo Lyceius, from Lycos,
  a wolf.

2 P. 140, l. 363. Ne’er be it mine, &c.  Reading [Greek:  toume me
  lupoun monon | boskema].

3 P. 143, l. 451. That lingers on my brow. A somewhat forced
  interpretation of [Greek:  tende lipare tricha].  Possibly [Greek: 
  tend’ alamprunton tricha]:  ’And this—­unkempt and poor—­yet give it
  to him.’

4 P. 144, l. 504. Chariot course of Pelops, full of toil. Pelops won
  his bride Hippodameia by bribing Myrtilus, his charioteer; whom, in
  order to conceal his fault, he flung into the sea.