[663]. 270 a (R. P. 148 c).
[664]. Gell. xv. 20, “Alexander autem Aetolus hos de Euripide versus composuit”; ὁ δ’ Ἀναξαγόρου τρόφιμος χαιοῦ (so Valckenaer for ἀρχαίου) κ.τ.λ.
[665]. The question was first raised by Valckenaer (Diatribe, p. 26). Cf. also Wilamowitz, Analecta Euripidea, pp. 162 sqq.
[666]. See Introd. p. 12, [n. 14]. The fragment is quoted R. P. 148 c. The words ἀθανάτου φύσεως and κόσμον ἀγήρω carry us back rather to the older Milesians.
[667]. R. P. 150 b.
[668]. Both Ephoros (represented by Diod. xii. 38) and the source of Plut. Per. 32 made these attacks immediately precede the war. This may, however, be pragmatic; they perhaps occurred earlier.
[669]. Birds, 988. Aristophanes had no respect for orthodoxy when combined with democratic opinions.
[670]. Plut. Per. 32 (R. P. 148), where some of the original words have been preserved. The phrase τὰ θεῖα and the word μετάρσια are archaisms from the ψήφισμα.
[671]. These accounts are repeated by Diog. ii. 12-14. It is worth while to put the statements of Satyros and Sotion side by side in order to show the unsatisfactory character of the biographical tradition:—
| Sotion. | Satyros. | |
| Accuser. | Kleon. | Thoukydides s. of Melesias. |
| Charge. | Calling the sun a red-hot mass. | Impiety and Medism. |
| Sentence. | Fined five talents. | Sentenced to death in absence. |