Φαίδραν· ἐπὶ πῦρ δὲ πῦρ ἔοιχ’ ἥξειν ἄγων.
(Polyid. Fr. 2.)
[227] Cp. Geras, Fr. 5, 6, 7.
[228] Cp. e.g. the remarks of Phocion to his son: ἐμοῦ μέν, ὦ παῖ, τὴν σὴν μητέρα γαμοῦντος οὐδ’ ὁ γείτων ᾔσθετο. Plutarch. Phoc. 30.
[229] Vide e.g. Nubes, 973 seqq., 1002 seqq.
[230] Cp. the speech of Mnesilochus, Thesmoph. 466 seqq., the spirit of which, all allowance for comic exaggeration being made, cannot be mistaken.
[231] Vide Thesmoph. 383 seqq. The subject and style of the Daedalus were equally uncomplimentary. Cp. Fr. 3.
[232] κωμῳδεῖται δὲ (ὀ Ἀριστοφάνης) ὅτι καὶ τὸ τῆς Εἰρήνης κολοσσικὸν ἐξῆρεν ἄγαλμα, Εὔπολις Αὐτολύκῳ, Πλάτων Νίκαις. Schol. Plat. Apol. p. 331.
[233] It is worth noticing that, while a man who seduced an Athenian citizen seems to have been legally bound to marry her, and therefore, to a certain extent, there was no great virtue in his action if he did so, at the same time this legal necessity was never, so far as we know, in any way urged in any play of the New Comedy. The point will be more fully discussed when we come to this part of our subject. [See [p. 169].]
[234] Minos, quod Daedali opera multa sibi incommoda acciderunt, in Siciliam est eum persecutus petiitque a rege Cocalo ut sibi redderetur. cui cum Cocalus promisisset et Daedalus rescisset, ab regis filiabus auxilium petiit. illae Minoem occiderunt. Hygin. Fab. 44.