Chapter 3

Notes

1. 8

   Τριέσπερον, so called, as some think, [from his origin: “ex concubitu trium noctium.”]

2. 9

   Thyestes seduced the wife of his brother Atreus, whence the tragic career of the family.

3. 10

   There is no apodosis in the Greek.

4. 11

   Not, as the editors dispute, either the tongue of the buckle with which he put out his eyes, nor the awl with which his heels were bored through, but the goad with which he killed his father.