[84] The attribution of this play to Critias is not certain, but probable; it is accepted by Wilamowitz. The new life of Euripides by Satyrus (see above, p. 18) attributes it to that poet.
[85] Eratosthenes, II.
[86] Poetic, 1453b.
[87] De Gloria Atheniensium, 349 E.
[88] Poetic, 1455a, b.
[89] Aristotle, Rhetoric, III, 12, 2: βαστάζονται δὲ οἱ ἀναγνωστικοί, οἷον Χαιρήμων· ἀκριβὴς γὰρ ὥσπερ λογογράφος.
[90] “You know how to feel contempt before you have learnt wisdom,” or, to reproduce (however badly) the play upon words, “You practise contempt before using contemplation”.
[91] Athenæus, fr. 10: δρᾶμα πολύμετρον.
[92] Poetic, 1447b.
[93] vv. 677-774.