Aeschylus
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...orations, when a new and important argument or topic is ushered in. Cp. 1. 1080, also 1. 247. Number underlies most arts and sciences, hence its primary importance. Remember that Aeschylus was a Pythagorean, and therefore likely to extol arithmetic. For o-octio-p.arDv see on 1. 62. 1. 460. ypa)ifiar0)v o-w$r.s. Methods of joining letters (to form syllables and words). 1. 461. Mythologically the Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, and practically Memory is the power which produces all poetry and letters (airdv-nav ipyariv). That men were originally without this gift seems to follow from Prometheus' account (11.447, etc.), though in what sense he gave it to them he does not tell us. 1. 462. KvuSoXa, wild fierce animals, such as oxen and horses before they were tamed. The word is used several times by Aeschylus. 1. 464. 'That with their bodies they might relieve mortals in their heaviest toils.' For SidSoxoi see 1. 1027. Literally 'successors in toils.' Horses are thus considered the partners and helpers of men; they 'love the rein' too; and thus stand above the KvuSaXa, who drudge and 'are slaves to their harness, ' and by whom the poet chiefly means oxen. 1. 466. Horses were much kept for racing, and their possession was a mark of luxury. Cp. the use of l-mrorptxpos in Demosthenes, de Corona. For the praises of the horse see Soph. O. C. 708. 1. 467. 'It was I and none else, ' lit. ' none else instead of me.' So in Soph. Ajax, 444, oti/c civ T &vr' tiiapif/ev dAAos dm' ip.od. 1. 468. vavriXuv oxTip.ara, i. e. 'ships.' The mention of this and of the last discovery recals the language of Sophocles in the second Chorus of the Antigone (1. 332, etc.), where the power of man, shown in his different conquests over...
