[801] ὡς πανταχοῦ γε πατρὶς ἡ βόσκουσα γῆ.
[802] δένδρεα φίλοισιν ὠλέναισι ψυκτήρια λέξεται.
[803] The chorus in their terror bid the queen seek refuge with her father Oceanus.
[804] See Oxyrhynchus Papyri, VI, pp. 19-106.
[805] The scholiast on Frogs, v. 53, which was performed in 405 B.C. (the year after Euripides’ death) mentions the Hypsipyle among recent plays.
[806] The critic Didymus, for instance, knew the Hypsipyle better than the Bacchæ. For “Achelous” as a synonym for “water” he quotes the former play rather than Bacchæ, 625. See Macrobius, V, xviii. 12.
[807] That is, “the beginning of doom”.
[808] Hartung, Eur. Rest. II, p. 442.
[809] Μελανίππη ἡ σοφή, so called to distinguish it from Μ. δέσμωτις, or Melanippe in Prison. The latter play seems to have been much less important. Unfortunately there is often a doubt, when authorities quote the “Melanippe,” from which of the two the quotation comes.
[810] See pp. 313-5.