[546] v. 166. This is the type of drama at which Sophocles shook his head and which Aristophanes reviled. But it must have made many a slave-holding citizen in the theatre suddenly raise his brows and fall to thinking of words let drop an hour ago at home.
[547] vv. 1147 sqq.: The some one of course might be anyone. The speaker elects to assume that the god is actually present.
[548] vv. 1002 sqq., especially 1004.
[549] vv. 464-94.
[550] vv. 147-80.
[551] vv. 164 sqq.
[552] vv. 445-63.
[553] Eg. vv. 632 sqq.
[554] Arrangement (according to Croiset): protagonist, Amphitryon, Madness; deuteragonist, Megara, Iris, Theseus; tritagonist, Lycus, Heracles, messenger. Of course the dead bodies are lay figures. Other arrangements are possible.
[555] vv. 637-700.