Note 67 — PROMETHEUS CHAINED.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation
σφαγαῖσι is rightly rendered "in jugulo" by Blomfield, after Ruhnk. Ep. Crit. I. p. 71. To the examples quoted add Apul. Met. I. p. 108, "per jugulum sinistrum capulotenus gladium totum ei demergit," and p. 110, "jugulo ejus vulnus dehiscit in patorem," The expression νυκτιφρουρήτῳ θράσει is well illustrated by the words of Nonnus, l. c. p. 64, 17.
καὶ κρυφίοις ξιφέεσσι σιδηροφόρων ἐπὶ λέκτρων ἄρσενα γυμνὸν Ἄρηα κατεύνασε θῆλυς Ἐνυώ.