_Alexander_ (_Paris_). The plot of this play hinges on the destruction of Troy. The passages which remain are a heavenly admonition to Priam on the crimes of his son, a lamentation for the death of Hector, and a prediction of Cassandra concerning the wooden horse. Planck, in his recent edition of the _Medea_ of Ennius, while he does not deny that our poet may have written a tragedy with the title of _Alexander_, is of opinion that the fragments quoted as from this play in the editions of Ennius belong properly to his _Alexandra_ (_Cassandra_), to which subject they are perfectly applicable. This German critic has also collected a good many fragments belonging to the _Cassandra_, which had been omitted in Columna and Merula’s editions of Ennius. The longest of these passages, delivered by Cassandra in the style of a prophecy, seems to refer to events previous to the Trojan war—the judgment of Paris, and arrival of Helen from Sparta. _Andromache_. It is uncertain from what Greek writer this tragedy has been translated. It seems to be founded on the lamentable story of Andromache, who fell, with other Trojan captives, to the share of Neoptolemus, and saw her only son, Astyanax, torn from her embraces, to be precipitated from the summit of a tower, in compliance with the injunctions of an oracle. Among the fragments of this play, we possess one of the longest passages extant of the works of Ennius, containing a pathetic lamentation of Andromache for the fall and conflagration of Troy, with a comparison between its smoking ruins and former splendour. This passage Cicero styles, “Præclarum Carmen!”—“Est enim,” he adds, “et rebus, et verbis, et modis lugubre(166).” —— “Quid petam Præsidi aut exsequar? quo nunc aut exilio aut fuga freta sim? Arce et urbe orba sum; quo accidam? quo applicem? Cui nec aræ patriæ domi stant; fractæ et disjectæ jacent, Fana flamma deflagrata; tosti alti stant parietes. O Pater, O Patria, O Priami domus; Septum altisono cardine templum: Vidi ego te, adstante ope barbarica, Tectis cælatis, laqueatis, Auro, ebore instructum regifice. Hæc omnia vidi inflammari, Priamo vi vitam evitari, Jovis aram sanguine turpari(167).” _Andromache Molottus_ is translated from the _Andromache_ of Euripides, and is so called from Molottus, the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache. _Andromeda_. Livius Andronicus had formerly written a Latin play on the well-known story of Perseus and Andromeda, which was translated from Sophocles. The play of Ennius, however, on the same subject, was a version of a tragedy of Euripides, now chiefly known from the ridicule cast on it in the fifth act of Aristophanes’ _Feasts of Ceres_. That Ennius’ drama was translated from Euripides, is sufficiently manifest, from a comparison of its fragments with the passages of the Greek Andromeda, preserved by Stobæus. _Athamas_. There is only one short fragment of this play now extant.