[243] Nevertheless, it has been ignored by certain recent writers on the origin of tragedy, cf. _Classical Philology_, VIII (1913), 283. [244] Whether the satyric chorus was increased at the same time is unknown. In Fig. 4, which represents a satyric drama of about 400 B.C., not more than twelve choreutae are represented. [245] For the differences between sileni and satyrs and for their appearance on the stage, see pp. 24-32. [246] Cf. the scholia to Sophocles’ _Ajax_, vs. 134, to Euripides’ _Phoenician Maids_, vs. 202, etc. [247] _Conversations with Eckermann_, July 5, 1827 (Oxenford’s translation). [248] Cf. Graeber, _De Poetarum Atticorum Arte Scaenica_ (1911), pp. 56 ff. [249] Cf. Flickinger, _op. cit._, pp. 28 ff. [250] Cf. Aristotle’s _Poetics_, 1456_a_26 ff. [251] Cf. _Philologus_, LXX (1911), 497 f. [252] Cf. _Revue des Études anciennes_, XIII (1911), 273. [253] In the Jernstedt fragment; cf. Capps, _Four Plays of Menander_, pp. 98 f. [254] Cf. Kock, _Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta_, II, 333 f., fr. 107. [255] Cf. Verrall, _Euripides the Rationalist_, p. 219, note. [256] Cf. Archer, _Play-making_, p. 142. [257] Cf. _The Origin of Attic Comedy_, p. 107. [258] Cf. _Zur Dramaturgie des Äschylus_ (1892), p. 135. [259] Cf. Euripides’ _Helen_, vs. 184, and _Medea_, vss. 131 ff. [260] Cf. Euripides’ _Hecabe_, vs. 105, and _Electra_, vss. 168 ff. [261] Cf. Sophocles’ _Maidens of Trachis_, vs. 103, and _Ajax_, vs. 143, Euripides’ _Hippolytus_, vss. 129 ff., etc. [262] Cf. Sophocles’ _Oedipus the King_, vs. 144, and _Antigone_, vss. 164 f., Euripides’ _Trojan Women_, vss. 143-45, Aristophanes’ _Clouds_, vs. 269, _Peace_, vss. 296 ff., _Birds_, vss. 310 f., and _Plutus_, vs. 255, etc. [263] Cf. Verrall’s edition of Euripides’ _Ion_ (1890), p. lx. [264] Cf. p. 89 of his edition (1896). [265] Cf. John Dennis, _The Impartial Critick_ (1693). [266] Cf. Tovey, _Letters of Thomas Gray_, II, 293 f. [267] Cf. Dennis, _op. cit._ [268] _Four Plays of Euripides_ (1905), pp. 125-30. [269] Cf. Murray, _Euripides and His Age_ (1913), p. 238. [270] _Thucydides Mythistoricus_ (1907), p. 147 (italics mine).