5
Euripides, Fragment of the "Melanippe."
6
This line is taken bodily by Aristophanes in his "Frogs," 1244.
7
The first line is the first line of a passage from Euripides, consisting of thirteen lines, containing similar sentiments to this. See Athenæus, xiii. p. 599, F. The last two lines are from Euripides, "Hippolytus," 449, 450.
8
Euripides, "Danae," Frag. Compare Ovid, "Cedit amor rebus: res age, tutus eris."
9
Sophocles, Fragm. 678, Dindorf. Compare a remark of Sophocles, recorded by Cicero, "De Senectute," ch. xiv.