be attributed the conclusion of Io's next speech. I confess my inability to feel the full force of this remark, or indeed to see any necessary connection between the two passages. Io, in her next speech, has become aware of Prometheus's superior wisdom, and her whole object is to profit by it.
Note 16. Page 39.
Jove's counsel, Vulcan's hand.
In a fragment of the Prometheus Solutus preserved in the translation of Attius, a line occurs very similar to this:—
Saturnius me sic infixit Jupiter,
Jovisque numen Mulcibri ascivit manus.
Note 17. Page 43.
And Lerne's height.
Bishop Blomfield has received Canter's Λέρνης τε κρηνὴν into his text; but he mentions in a note, a conjecture, which "nuper in mentem venit," and "magis placet,"—ἀκτήν τε Λέρνης. It pleases me much more: it is picturesque, and varies the scene; and as we are just now looking at "Cenchrea's pleasant wave," nobody can be solicitous about having "Lerne's fount" besides—κοὐ μίγνυται ὒδασιν ὒδωρ. Butler and Scholefield retain Λέρνης ἂκπαν: and the latter observes in a note, that it is an allusion to the rocks hanging over Lerne. He seems, however, to doubt the accuracy of the reading.
