Euripidis Tragoediae (Nauck 3rd ed.)

Aristophanes already taunts Euripides with these vegetables; others contradict this, claiming that Clito was born of a very honorable family 7. And indeed, if you consider the way of life the poet entered, it will seem more probable that Euripides was not needy; especially since the abundance of books with which he is said to have been equipped could not have been acquired except at great expense. Nevertheless, the mockery of Aristophanes would have been vain and empty if the poet's mother had never engaged in an ignoble trade. Hence, I suspect that his parents, although born in a low station, increased their wealth little by little, so that the poet had the means to engage in an honest...

7) Ar. Ach. 457: May you be happy, as your mother was once. Where the Scholiast says: He mocks him for having a vegetable-seller mother, Clito. Ar. Ach. 478: Give me scandix a type of edible wild chervil, received from my mother. Eq. 19: NIK. How then could I say it as elegantly as Euripides? DEMOSTH. Not me, not me, don't "scandix-ize" me! Hesychius (cf. Schol. Ar. Eq. 19): Don't "scandix-ize" a play on Euripides' style: don't "Euripid-ize." For Euripides' mother used to sell scandix. Ar. Thesm. 456: For he does wild evils to us, women, as he was himself raised among wild vegetables. Ran. 840: Really, child of the rustic goddess? 947: EUR. But going out, first he would have spoken the birth immediately in the drama. AESCH. For it would have been better for you, by Zeus, than your own. Hesychius (cf. Phot. Lex. p. 516.4 and Suid.): Scandix: wild vegetable. Because of which they also call Euripides a "scandix-seller," since they say he is the son of a vegetable-seller. Anonymus ap. Suid. s.v. scandix: And don't play-act to me the things of the "scandix-seller," calling the water of Peirene noble (Med. 68). Gellius N.A. 15.20.1: Theopompus says that the mother of the poet Euripides sought her living by selling rustic vegetables. Pliny N.H. 22.38: Aristophanes jocularly objects to the poet Euripides that his mother did not even sell a legitimate vegetable, but scandix. Philochorus contradicted this, as testified by Suidas s.v. Euripides: It is not true that his mother was a vegetable-seller; for she happened to be of the very noble, as Philochorus proves. Regarding the arguments put forward by Philochorus, one can conjecture from Ath. X p. 424 E: And the poet Euripides poured wine as a boy. Theophrastus at any rate says in his work "On Drunkenness": I learn that the poet Euripides also poured wine at Athens for those called the dancers. These danced around the temple of Apollo the Delian, being of the first Athenians, and they wore clothes of Theraean wool. And this is the Apollo to whom they celebrate the Thargelia. And a painting regarding these is preserved at Phlya in the Daphnephoreion. With which you may compare what is read in the life vs. 17: He also became a torch-bearer of Apollo Zosterius.