The precision of the wording is remarkable.
[668] Troades, 884 sqq.
[669] See Four Plays of Euripides, pp. 43-133 (Euripides’ Apology).
[670] vv. 1301 sqq.
[671] The idea is taken from the famous recantation of Stesichorus, which asserted that Helen never went to Troy.
[672] In the inflated affectation of such things as vv. 355-6 and 629 parody of some contemporary lyrist is quite possible.
[673] vv. 20-1, 256-9 (rejected by Murray, after Badham).
[674] vv. 138 sqq., 205 sqq., 284-5.
[675] vv. 744-60.
[676] Arrangement (according to Croiset): protagonist, Jocasta, Creon; deuteragonist, Antigone, Polynices, Menœceus; tritagonist, pædagogus, Eteocles, Tiresias, messengers, Œdipus.