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NOTES FOR ANDROMACHE
COLERIDGE'S translation has been slightly altered in the following lines:
79, 179, 238, 333, 352, 370, 403, 480, 482, 648, 662, 713, 784, 795, 826,
837, 906, 930, 946, 953, 973, 980, 983, 992, 1056-1057, 1066.
1. Coleridge's note to this line runs: "Neoptolemus demanded satisfaction
for his father's death because Apollo directed the fatal arrow of
Paris which killed Achilles."
2. i.e., the Argo.
3. i.e., the Furies.
4. These lines are found likewise at the conclusion of the Alcestis,
Helen, The Bacchae, and, with a slight addition, the Medea.