[622] vv. 968 sqq.

[623] One can hardly doubt that this is the intention of the scene on the Taurian beach (vv. 281-94).

[624] vv. 711 sqq. The feelings of the Delphian hierarchy, when Orestes after all actually returned, bringing with him the image—about which they cared not a farthing—may be imagined by the irreverent.

[625] v. 77.

[626] v. 275.

[627] vv. 380 sqq.

[628] vv. 719 sq.

[629] See Verrall, Eur. the Rationalist, pp. 217-30 (Euripides in a Hymn).

[630] Longinus, de Subl. xv. 3.

[631] vv. 970 sqq.