398.  The image is taken from the trireme with its three benches full of rowers. The Chorus is compared to the men on the lowest, Ægisthos and Clytæmnestra to those on the uppermost bench.

399.  The earliest occurrence of the proverb with which we are familiar through the history of St. Paul's conversion, Acts ix. 5, xxvi. 14.

400.  The trace-horse, as not under the pressure of the collar, was taken as the type of free, those that wore the yoke, of enforced submission.