[202] Puchstein would date it earlier (end of the fifth century).
[203] Plutarch, Liber Amatorius, 756 B, C.
[204] ἐκσυρίττειν (“to hiss off”).
[205] Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, § 337.
[206] Ethics, X, 1175 B.
[207] Date: uncertain. Professor Tucker thinks the year 492-1 probable; Æschylus was then thirty-three years old. Historical considerations are here of doubtful value, but the technique of the play seems to prove beyond question that it is an early work.
Arrangement: protagonist, Danaus, Egyptian herald; deuteragonist, King of Argos.
[208] In the centre of the orchestra, as always.
[209] Danaus is necessarily dismissed so that the actor who impersonates him may appear as the Egyptian herald.
[210] vv. 991-2.