[652] vv. 1294, 1296 sq., 1302.
[653] vv. 737-45.
[654] Expedit esse deos.
[655] “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
[656] vv. 1245 sq.
[657] vv. 1327 sqq.
[658] vv. 1301-7. The first line, μοῖρά τ’ ἀνάγκης ἦγ’ ᾗ τὸ χρεών, is an exceptionally fine instance of misty verbiage.
[659] See Verrall’s discussion in his edition of the Choephorœ (Introd. pp. xxxiii-lxx).
[660] Probable Arrangement: protagonist, Helen, the god (whether Castor or Pollux); deuteragonist, Teucer, Menelaus, Egyptian messenger; tritagonist, old woman, Greek messenger, Theonoe, Theoclymenus.
[661] v. 616: ὦ χαῖρε, Λήδας θύγατερ, ἐνθάδ’ ἦσθ’ ἄρα;