[836] Frogs, 1198-1247.
[837] He seems in private conversation to have maintained the necessity of this; compare the criticism of Æschylus which he utters in the Frogs, 1122: ἀσαφὴς γὰρ ἦν ἐν τῇ φράσει τῶν πραγμάτων. φ.τ.π. is precisely “prologue” in the Euripidean sense.
[838] Herc. Fur., 601 sqq.
[839] Mr. G. B. Shaw.
[840] Troades, vv. 1204-6. Cp. Helena, 1140-3.
[841] See Mr. W. H. S. Jones, The Moral Standpoint of Euripides, pp. 28 sq. This view is also set forth by Jebb, The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry, p. 218, and by Nestle, Euripides der Dichter der Gr. Aufklärung, p. 174.
[842] Orestes, vv. 982 sqq.: μόλοιμι τὰν οὐρανοῦ κτἑ.
[843] See Mr. E. F. Carritt, The Theory of Beauty, p. 156.
[844] Ibid. p. 89.
[845] v. 618.