The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1822 Excerpt: ... 197 NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OH BOOK IV. Line 13. Juno struck with fear-. This fear was inspired by Juno, that Medea, being apprehensive of her father's severity, might the more readily be disposed to accompany the Argonauts to Greece, where the designs of the goddess required her presence, as an instrument of vengeance on Pelias, who had offended her. 14. Timid deer. A fawn in the most tender state. The word, in the original, is Keftaj, which, the Greek Scholiast says, differs from vtfipoi, in denoting the animal in a more helpless and infantine state, while it yet lies in the covert or cave, as yet unable to go abroad for food. In the text Apollonius intimates that.Sletes lay in wait for the Argonauts by night. The author of the Naupactica, whoever he was, relates, that he was lulled to rest by Venus. 28. In her breast she placed. She placed her hoard of magic drugs and charms in her bosom, both for safety and secrecy; considering it as her most precious treasure. 29. Kiss'd her bed. It was customary among the ancients to kiss inanimate things in this manner, by way of taking leave of them at parting, or gratulation on their return to them. Thus, in the Philoctetes of Sophocles, we have, --' Let us depart, O youth; first having kissed that uninhabitable cheerless seat within.'--Again, --'Go; Vol.-ii. s having kissed the earth.' In Virgil, .En. ii. ver. 490. Amplexaeque tenent posies, utqne oscula (igunt. 34. A-tress of hair. It was the custom, among the ancients, to offer up locks of their hair to different deities. Medea consigns hers, as a remembrance, to her mother. 67. The bolts and bars, Sfc. Milton might have taken from hence the idea of the gates of heaven opening spontaneously to the angel. The opening of bolts, locks, and doors, in this manner, is a f