Note 325 — AGAMEMNON

Here, too, it may be well to give an alternative rendering—

“A mischief in his house,

A man reared, not on milk.”

Home-reared lions seem to have been common as pets, both among Greeks and Latins (Arist., Hist. Anim. ix. 31; Plutarch, de Cohib. irâ, § 14, p. 822), sometimes, as in Martial's Epigram, ii. 25, with fatal consequences. The text shows the practice to have been common enough in the time of Pericles to supply a similitude.