Euripidis Tragoediae (Nauck 3rd ed.)

75 He married a second time, and finding her even more licentious, he became bolder in his blasphemy against women. The women wanted to kill him when they entered the cave where he constantly spent his time writing. He is slandered by envy as having Cephisophon assist him
80 in composing his tragedies. Hermippus also says that Dionysius, the tyrant of Sicily, after the death of Euripides, sent a talent to his heirs to obtain his lyre, tablet, and stylus, which, once he saw them, he ordered his messengers to dedicate in the temple of the Muses, inscribed with the names of
85 himself and Euripides. Hence they say he was called a lover of strangers because he was most loved by foreigners; for he was envied by the Athenians. When a rather uneducated young man said out of envy that his mouth smelled bad, he said, ‘Be silent; it is a mouth sweeter than honey and the Sirens.’

90 He mocked women through his poems for the following reason. He had a home-born youth named Cephisophon; he caught his own wife behaving disorderedly with this man. At first he tried to dissuade her from sinning; but when he could not persuade her, he left the woman to him, as Cephisophon wanted to have her. Aristophanes also says:

95 > Cephisophon, best and most blackened,

You lived for the most part with Euripides,
And as they say, you even composed the melodies.

They say also that women, because of the reproaches he made against them in his poems, set upon him at the Thesmophoria festival of Demeter, wanting to kill him;
100 they spared him first because of the Muses, and then because he pledged to no longer speak ill of them. At any rate, in his Menalippe he says of them:

104 > In vain then is the reproach of men against women
105 > A string plucked, a hollow arrow, and speaking ill;

But they are better than males, I say

And the rest. Philemon loved him so much that he dared to say this about him:

110 > If truly those who have died

Had perception, men, as some say,
I would have hanged myself so that I could see Euripides.

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