What was his name or race,What the high God P. 40, 1. 703, What the High God.]—It would be unparalleled in classical Greek to describe a man by his religion; but this phrase seems only to mean: What is his tribal God?
i.e. what is his tribe? Thus it could be said of Isagoras in Herodotus (v. 66) that his kinsmen sacrificed to Carian Zeus, suggesting, presumably, that he had Carian blood. by whom his sires have sworn?DIVERS GUARDS(talking).This night must be Odysseus’ work, or whose?—Odysseus? Aye, to judge by ancient use.—Odysseus surely!—That is thy belief?—What else? It seems he hath no fearOf such as we!—Whom praise ye there?Whose prowess? Say!—Odysseus.—Nay,Praise not the secret stabbing of a thief! CHORUS.He came once, of old,