[826] Ibid. 1304-8, 1314, 1348.
[827] Ibid. 1309-63.
[828] Ibid. 1378-1410.
[829] Ibid. 1198 sqq.
[830] Poetic, 1454a.
[831] Ibid. 1461b.
[832] Ibid. 1453a. ὁ Εὐριπίδης εἰ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα μὴ εὖ οἰκονομεῖ ἀλλὰ τραγικώτατός γε τῶν ποιητῶν φαίνεται.
[833] Andromache, Electra, Bacchæ, Rhesus, and the original text of the Iphigenia at Aulis (see Murray’s Apparatus at the end of the play). Aristotle naturally allows such as these (Poetic, 1454b): μηχανῇ χρηστέον ἐπὶ τὰ ἔξω τοῦ δράματος, κτἑ.
[834] In the extant plays. Of course there were others, which we cannot discuss with knowledge, e.g. the close of Melanippe the Wise.
[835] For the Iphigenia carries the Helena with it (see the discussion of the latter, [pp. 260 sqq.]). As a matter of cold fact, to be sure, Theoclymenus could never have overtaken the Greeks.