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NOTES FOR <strong>THE</strong> SUPPLIANTS<br />

<strong>THE</strong> translation of Coleridge has been slightly modified in the following<br />

lines: 178, 237, 430, 521, 577, 612, 632, 708, 719, 748, 791, 932, 1005,<br />

1032, 1048, 1053, 1087, 1149, 1234.<br />

1. The first portion of this speech calls to mind Prometheus' account<br />

of his benefits to man in Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, as well as Sophocles'<br />

famous chorus on man in the Antigone,<br />

2. Some words seem to have been lost at the beginning of this choral<br />

ode.<br />

3. This refers to the monster Phaea, which infested the neighbourhood<br />

of Corinth.<br />

4. This passage may be compared with Plato's description of tyranny<br />

and the tyrant in the Republic, Books VIII and IX.<br />

5. i.e., Amphiaraus.

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