[566] v. 1222.
[567] Compare the similar explanation of a wonderful feat actually offered by Lycus (vv. 153 sq.).
[568] Cp. Verrall, pp. 147 sq.
[569] Ibid. pp. 156, 162.
[570] vv. 65-6.
[571] vv. 485-9.
[572] Probable Arrangement: protagonist, Theseus, messenger; deuteragonist, Adrastus, Evadne; tritagonist, Æthra, herald, Iphis, Athena.
[573] The plot strongly recalls the incident after the battle of Delium (424 B.C.), when the victorious Bœotians at first refused to surrender the Athenian dead, and the alliance between Athens and Argos (420 B.C.).
[574] The Hypothesis says: τὸ δὲ δρᾶμα ἐγκώμιον Ἀθηναίων (altered by Dindorf with general approval to Ἀθηνῶν).
[575] vv. 195-218.