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NOTE FOR HERACLES
COLERIDGE'S translation has been slightly altered in the following lines:
63, 89, 138, !52, 204-205, 300, 362, 393, 421, 596, 627, 728, 732, 847,
917, 932, 1012, 1057, 1065, 1069, 1075, 1089, 1107, 1163,1173, 1182,
1213, 1214, 1237, 1255, 1340, 1343, 1424.
1. The reference is to the Eleusinian mysteries. Privileges in Hades
were guaranteed to initiates.
2. The allusion is to Itys, whose murder by his mother, as Coleridge
points out, became a theme for poets, and hence was an offering to the
Muses.
3. Some words seem to have been lost here. The beginning of the sentence
has been supplied to establish the connection in thought. Cf. note
ad loc. in the text of Paley.
4. i.e., the Minotaur.