[343] v. 427. Cp. Eur. Helena, 567: ποίας δάμαρτος;
[344] Jebb points out that Trach. 416 and Supplices 567 are practically identical.
[345] v. 1140.
[346] 268.
[347] vv. 9-14.
[348] That even the equable Sophocles did on occasion embody criticism of other playwrights in his works is shown by such passages as Electra 1288 sqq., Œd Col. 1148-9.
[349] Arrangement: protagonist, Philoctetes; deuteragonist, Neoptolemus; tritagonist, Odysseus, merchant, Heracles.
[350] vv. 1007-15.
[351] E.g. Mahaffy (History of Gk. Lit., Poets, pp. 309-12).
[352] Christ (Geschichte der Gr. Lit. p. 210) who compares Heracles here to the δαιμόνιον σημεῖον of Socrates.