Euripidis Tragoediae (Nauck 3rd ed.)

A, and Socrates B, to whom also Socrates Diog. L. 2.18. the dry sticks om. A. 15 they say Cephisophon Welcker. Timocrates] or Democrates? See what will be said below on p. XVII note. 24 he fared very well Elmsley. when] I would prefer so that. 26 he married I would write. 26.27 first Melito, and second Choirine] I would write first Choirine (he should have said Choirine), and second Melito conjectured Dindorf, cf. what Fritzsche said in Aristoph. Thesm. p. 110. 27 Choirine A, Choirine B. Mnesarchides A. 28 indeed first] elder A, indeed elder others. 29 younger B, younger others, I wrote youngest. 30 in om. AB. 31 the words in the first year, which were read after the Peliades 32, were recalled here by Elmsley. 33 92] 98 B. 37 in Athens] in would be better absent. 44 and I suspect it should be deleted. 47 at the games B, at the games Rossignoli. Perhaps the biographer pawned the Proagon, which was a comedy of Aristophanes, as a tragedy of Sophocles. 65 Aristophanes] Aulus Gellius disagrees N.A. 15.20.8: Alexander Aetolus, however, composed these verses about Euripides:

But the protégé of Anaxagoras, of old possibly a corruption of "archaic", though surly to me

to address

And a hater of laughter, and not even learned to jest over wine,
But whatever he wrote, this he had attained from honey and Sirens.

Learned men did not deny their trust to Gellius, v. Meineke Anal. Alex. p. 247. I do not doubt that there are three anapestic tetrameters of Aristophanes. Gellius used this very life which we have in our hands, nor does it follow from the fact that he brings forward the poet's fuller words that he is worthy of more trust regarding the name of the poet than the other witness. The error of Gellius can easily be explained, if we remember that the arrangement of the tragedies was entrusted to Alexander Aetolus by Ptolemy Philadelphus. Alexander Aetolus did not compose the verses in question, but added them. vs. 1 protégé of old Valckenaer for protégé of ancient, which Bergk changes to protégé of ancient. vs. 3 I believe it should be written he would have written everything of honey and had breathed in of the Sirens. 67 Choirine] Choirine should be read. 68 first play the] play the earlier Kirchhoff, cf. his annotation 71 sqq. wretched — but not] v. Eur. El. 923 sq. 83 of his books,