[383] See Jebb, Introduction, pp. xxi sq.
[384] See his splendid exculpatory speeches to the chorus (vv. 258-91) and to Creon (vv. 960-1013).
[385] See pp. 10, 12 sq.
[386] Ad Quintum Fratrem, II, xv. 3.
[387] Fr. 344: πόνου μεταλλαχθέντος οἱ πόνοι γλυκεῖς, and fr. 345: μόχθου γὰρ οὐδεὶς τοῦ παρελθόντος λόγος; recall Æneid, I, 203: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuuabit.
[388] De Subl. XV, 7: ἄκρως πεφάντασται.
[389] For the Recognition-scene of this play, cp. Aristotle, Poetic, 1454b.
[390] Birds, vv. 100 sqq.
[391] These have been published and annotated by Dr. A. S. Hunt (who, with Dr. B. P. Grenfell, discovered these and so many other precious remains) in Vol. IX of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
[392] Welcker thought that the wanderings of Europa formed the subject.