Mar. Par. ep. 53. Welcker’s Tril. p. 116.
See [Introduction] to that piece.
Scholiast, Aristoph. Acharn. v. 10.
Philostratus, Vit. Soph. I. 9; Vit. Apollon. VI. 11, p. 244.
The great comedian is particularly amusing in the contrast which he draws between the rude instinctive grandeur of the Æschylean diction and the elegant rhetorical decorations of Euripides:—
“With high-sounding words he will make such a pother,