NOTES
Line 51. Read ἔγνωκα· τοῖσδε᾽ γ᾽ οὐδὲν ἀντειπεῖν ἔχω.— W. Headlam.
Line 90. The celebrated ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα refers both to the sound and to the sparkling of the sea, as is shown by the use of ελᾶν for the glittering of armour in Homer, and of ἐκγελᾶν for the explosion of a wave (Plato). There lay in the words a suggestion of the whole effect of the moving water, both sound and light.
Line 113. Reading προυσελούμενος.
Line 331. Commentators, who have taken this line with grave literalness, have tried to explain it by the fact that Okeanos gave his daughter in marriage to Prometheus, or has now come to condole with him; but see Introduction page xxix.
Line 349. That Atlas is himself the pillar of heaven and earth is shown (1) by common sense, which does not allow us
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