ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
Fagf 106. 1. 12. " Tkis is evidently nothing more than the 
virga divina," Stc."} — Possibly of this nature were the rods of 
the Egyptians, mentioned in Sacred Scripture. In Exodus 
(vii. 11, 12.) it is said, that "the wise men and the 
SORCERERS . . . CAST DOWN EVERY MAN HIS ROD, AND 
THEY BECAME SERPENTS." They were therefore divining 
Tods: and it is to be remarked, that the Caduceus o£ Hermes 
is generally represented with two serpents. (See Vignette to 
Chap. II.) " Itaque virgula divina primo ex incanta- 
torum impuris fontibus defluxisse videtur in metalla." ^gri- 
cola de Re Metallica, lib. ii. p. 27. Basil, 1657. 
P. 128. 1. 3. ^' One of Jove's messengers."]] — In the 
text of Sophocles, it is made {A<o? ayyeAe?) Jove's messenger: 
and the Scholiast considers the bird as the Nightingale. But 
the Swallow, among all nations, has been superstitiously re- 
vered as the Herald of the Sun, and therefore was considered 
by the Greeks as the Messenger of Apollo; to whom, as to all 
^he principal Deities, the name of Jove was applicable. It is 
to the same Deity, by the name of Apollo, that Electra ad- 
dresses herself, "A»«| "AuraAAer (yer. 1393), u Avku* "Are/^Xet 
{ver. 1396), as tutelary God o^ Mycence: and the lamentation 
of this bird for Itys, who was the son of Progne, clearly proves 
it to have been the Swallow. 
