offer them to Mercury. Homer, Od. iii. 332. ACT V. SCENE LAST. A messenger returns with the news of the approach of Pisthetarus and his bride; and accordingly they appear in the air in a splendid machine, he with Jove's thunderbolt in his hand, and by his side Basilea magnificently adorned. The birds break out into loud songs of exultation, and conclude the drama with their hymeneal. 1661. ἀγαθὰ πράττοντες μείζω Móyov] 'fortunate beyond expression.' See Markland on Eurip. Suppl. 844. and Valckenaer on Hippol. 1216. A parody of the diction of Pindar and the Tragedians. 1663. Sóμo, a royal palace,' usual in the Tragedians. See Eurip. Or. 1358. and Valckenaer's note on Phoen. 1733. 1665. χρυσαυγὴς δόμος, 'a palace glittering with gold,' i. e. in the heavens or city of Nephelococcygia. This dative depends on προσέρχεται, and ἰδεῖν must be joined with ofos, 'such to look as.....' See Plato, Phæd. §. 76. Matthiæ G. G. §. 534. Horace, Od. 4. 2. "Niveus videri." 1668. There is great beauty in the expression οὐ φατὸν λέγειν, 'not to be expressed;' in which the infinitive Xéyev, after the example of the Epic and Tragic writers, (Orph. Arg. 926. où parò eineiv) is redundant. See Porson's Adversaria, p. 153. 1669. Béλos] Thunderbolts are frequently called 'Jove's weapons,' and wings are attributed to them on account of their swiftness. Orph. Hym. 18. 1670. ὀσμὴ δ ̓ ἀνωνόμαστος] 'unutterable odour.' Bentley unhesitatingly alters doμ, the reading of Suidas, into Tоμm. But he forgot Eschylus, Prom. Vinc.115. οδμὰ προσέπτα μ' ἀφεγγής. βάθος κύκλου] ‘the depth of heaven.' Bábos for os, as Virgil, "cœlumque profundum,” i. e. ‘altum.' Aristophanes seems clearly to parody some contemporary writer in this passage, as in many others, where he exposes to ridicule the grandiloquence of the Tragedians. -TλEKTάvη]'a wreathed curl.' Thy eiλnour, Schol. Homer, Il. A. 317. κνίσση δ' οὐρανὸν ἦλθεν ἑλισσομένη περὶ καπνόν. The metaphor is similar to λóкαμо KaжYOU, πλόκαμοι καπνού, Bóorρuxos Tuρós, and others. Perhaps this is a parody on the λeKrávny xeμáppoor, quoted from some Tragic writer by Longinus, §. 3, and blamed by that critic for fustian. 1675. A parody on Eurip. Troad. 308. and Cyclops 202. 1678. φεῦ τῆς ὥρας] ‘Oh for beauty's prime!' See Plato, Phæd. p. 131. ed. Bekker. 1682. υμεναίοις] Nuptialia concinens 1686. λißátwr, derived from ἀλιτεῖν and βαίνειν· ἐν οἷς ἐστιν ἀλιτεῖν βαίνοντα. 1688. ξυνεκοίμισαν ἄρχοντα ήλιBárwv, Opóvwv "Hpq, caused the βάτων, θρόνων lord of the thrones on high to mount the same bed as Juno.' ...τῷδε συγκοιμωμένην ... ἥτις ξυνεύδεις τῷ παλαμναίῳ. Soph. Εlec. 276. and 584. Dawes prefers τοιῳδ' ὑμεναίῳ without ἐν. 1691. ἀμφιθαλής] Dindorf re"" Ubi de marks upon this word, hominibus dicitur, indicat eos, qui utroque parente florent; de diis, omni ex parte florentes, almos, significat." 1692. vías] See Potter, Ant. ii. 281. 1694. πάροχος γάμων] ‘bridesman at the marriage.' So called παρὰ τὸ παροχεῖσθαι τοῖς νυμφίοις ἐπ' ὀχήματος γὰρ τὰς νύμφας ἄγου σιν. 1696. vμévalos sometimes means a bridal song,' sometimes the deity presiding over marriage.' See Toup Em. in Suid. ii. p. 292. Spanheim on Callim. Del. 296. 1698. ἄγαμαι δὲ λόγων] ‘and I approve your words.' Pisthetærus, 1703. See Monk on Eurip. Hippol. 1196. 1704. You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head. Shakspeare, Lear, act 3. 1709. ἕπεσθε must be joined with ἐπὶ πέδον Διός. 1718. A parody on two verses of Archilochus, quoted by the Scholiast. Ὦ Καλλίνικε, χαῖρ ̓ ἄναξ Ηράκλεες, | αὐτός τε κ' Ιόλαος, αἰχμητὰ δύω. 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