[801] ὡς πανταχοῦ γε πατρὶς ἡ βόσκουσα γῆ. [802] δένδρεα φίλοισιν ὠλέναισι ψυκτήρια λέξεται. [803] The chorus in their terror bid the queen seek refuge with her father Oceanus. [804] See _Oxyrhynchus Papyri_, VI, pp. 19-106. [805] The scholiast on _Frogs_, v. 53, which was performed in 405 B.C. (the year after Euripides’ death) mentions the _Hypsipyle_ among recent plays. [806] The critic Didymus, for instance, knew the _Hypsipyle_ better than the _Bacchæ_. For “Achelous” as a synonym for “water” he quotes the former play rather than _Bacchæ_, 625. See Macrobius, V, xviii. 12. [807] That is, “the beginning of doom”. [808] Hartung, _Eur. Rest._ II, p. 442. [809] Μελανίππη ἡ σοφή, so called to distinguish it from Μ. δέσμωτις, or _Melanippe in Prison_. The latter play seems to have been much less important. Unfortunately there is often a doubt, when authorities quote the “_Melanippe_,” from which of the two the quotation comes. [810] See pp. 313-5. [811] ἔχει δὲ διπλοῦν σχῆμα, τὸ μὲν τοῦ ποιητοῦ, τὸ δὲ τοῦ προσώπου τοῦ ἐν τῷ δράματι, τῆς Μελανίππης (quoted by Nauck). [812] _Jupiter Tragœdus_, 41. [813] Hartung assigns it to 448 B.C. [814] Cp. Aristotle’s criticism, _Poetic_, 1454_a_: τοῦ δὲ ἀπρεποῦς καὶ μὴ ἁρμόττοντος (παράδειγμα) ... ἡ τῆς Μελανίππης ῥῆσις. [815] _Moralia_, 110 D, 998 E. [816] _Poetic_, 1454_a_. [817] κοίλοις ἐν ἄλυχνος ὥστε θὴρ μόνος (_fr._ 425). [818] τίς δ’ οἶδεν εἰ τὸ ζῆν μέν ἐστι κατθανεῖν, τὸ κατθανεῖν δὲ ζῆν κάτω νομίζεται; [819] 1 Cor. xv. 33. [820] _Fr._ 1034:— ἅπας μὲν ἀὴρ ἀετῷ περάσιμος, ἅπασα δὲ χθὼν ἀνδρὶ γενναίῳ πατρίς. [821] _Fr._ 475. [822] Mr. F. Manning, _Scenes and Portraits_ (_Preface_, p. viii). [823] Aristotle, _Poetic_, 1460_b_: Σοφοκλῆς ἔφη αὐτὸς μὲν οἵους δεῖ ποιεῖν, Εὐριπίδην δὲ οἷοί εἰσιν. [824] _Frogs_, vv. 850, 1043 _sq._ [825] _Ibid._ 954-8. [826] _Ibid._ 1304-8, 1314, 1348. [827] _Ibid._ 1309-63. [828] _Ibid._ 1378-1410. [829] _Ibid._ 1198 _sqq._ [830] _Poetic_, 1454_a_. [831] _Ibid._ 1461_b_. [832] _Ibid._ 1453_a_. ὁ Εὐριπίδης εἰ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα μὴ εὖ οἰκονομεῖ ἀλλὰ τραγικώτατός γε τῶν ποιητῶν φαίνεται. [833] _Andromache_, _Electra_, _Bacchæ_, _Rhesus_, and the original text of the _Iphigenia at Aulis_ (see Murray’s _Apparatus_ at the end of the play). Aristotle naturally allows such as these (_Poetic_, 1454_b_): μηχανῇ χρηστέον ἐπὶ τὰ ἔξω τοῦ δράματος, κτἑ. [834] In the extant plays. Of course there were others, which we cannot discuss with knowledge, _e.g._ the close of _Melanippe the Wise_. [835] For the _Iphigenia_ carries the _Helena_ with it (see the discussion of the latter, pp. 260 _sqq._). As a matter of cold fact, to be sure, Theoclymenus could never have overtaken the Greeks. [836] _Frogs_, 1198-1247.