Note 47 — SCENE I.
Reading edition
Cf. Job xli. 18:—"By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning." So Sophocles in the Antigone speaks of the sun as άμέρας βλἑφαρον. The reader will remember the line in Lycidas:—
"Under the opening eyelids of the morn."