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1303 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter P
   Suidas states that Philocles was contemporary with Euripides (adopting the emendation of Clinton, (17.50)

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte) alphabetic letter T
   Euripides is defended against the critics who had complained that his plays usually ended unhappily; this, says Aristotle, is right in Tragedy, and the, proof is that Euripides, although a faulty composer in other respects, is found to be at, least the most tragic of poets ( (17.37)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *h, entry *(hraklei=dai
   ; title of play by Euripides. (14.98)

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6 from Renaissance Materials

1. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 5, scene 3, commline 168
   Cunliffe, pp. 274-277), but nothing can be argued from that, as Shakespeare is here following Plutarch, and it may be that Euripides was the inspiration for Plutarch's fictitious account of Volumnia's intercession. (7.43)

2. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 5, scene 3, commline 168
   Inasmuch as there was not any translation in English of Euripides until long after Shakespeare's time—except the Jocasta, by Gascoigne and Kinwellmarsh, in 1566—the Iphigenia is a very doubtful source of his inspiration. (2.70)

3. Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie paragraph 64
   But where dooth Euripides ? (2.56)

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4 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 5, scene 3, commline 168
   Cunliffe, pp. 274-277), but nothing can be argued from that, as Shakespeare is here following Plutarch, and it may be that Euripides was the inspiration for Plutarch's fictitious account of Volumnia's intercession. (6.53)

2. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 5, scene 3, commline 168
   Inasmuch as there was not any translation in English of Euripides until long after Shakespeare's time—except the Jocasta, by Gascoigne and Kinwellmarsh, in 1566—the Iphigenia is a very doubtful source of his inspiration. (2.63)

3. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 2, scene 3, commline 123
   84, and Euripides, Bacchæ, 894, ‘What has long been custom, is divine. (2.25)

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20 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter M, entry 21746
   physician and classical scholar; B.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1754; M.A., 1756; Radcliffe travelling fellow, 1754; went to Holland and France; F.R.S., 1760; M.D. Leyden, 1763; published pamphlets accusing three persons of rank of having sold the peace of 1763 to the French; M.D. Oxford, 1775; F.R.C.P., 1777; Gulstonian lecturer and censor, 1779; had few superiors as a Greek scholar; published medical works and edited and collated various plays of Euripides; his notes on Sophocles bought by Oxford University after his death and inserted in the 1800 edition. [xxxix. (4.78)

2. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 81, object 1
   The nebris, or hind's skin, which forms so remarkable a feature in the present statue, is constantly mentioned in the ancient writers, as appropriate to Bacchus, and worn by the Bacchantes-as in the "Bacchae" of Euripides; where Pentheus, asking if anything should be added to his attire, is answered-" the thyrsus (a spear adorned with ivy or bay-leaves) for your hand, and the spotted skin of the hind. (4.66)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter P, entry 23448
   His publications include ‘The Tragedies of Euripides,’ 1857, his introductions to the plays of Euripides being models of clearness, ‘Manual of Gothic Mouldings,’ 1845, ‘The Epics of Hesiod,’ 1861, editions and translations of other classical authors, and ‘Bibliographia Græca,’ 1881. (4.06)

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4 from American Memory: California

1. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 284
   To the survivors of the Athenian host annihilated at Syracuse it was ordained that any prisoner who could recite passages or scenes from the dramas of Euripides should be taken from the quarries and kindly treated in Sicilian houses. (5.73)

2. Granite crags; by C.F. Gordon Cumming page 4
   EURIPIDES. (4.66)

3. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 448
   Naturally shrinking from general society, and preferring books and solitude to noisy assemblies, like Euripides I was undoubtedly regarded by some as sulky and morose; yet I believe few ever held humanity in higher esteem or carried a kinder heart for all men than I. "When a man has great studies," says George Eliot, "and is writing a great work, he must, of course, give up seeing much of the world. (4.54)

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5 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford: Autobiographical and historical reminiscences of education in Wisconsin, through progressive service from rural school teaching to city superintendent page 505
   That the front maneuver did not entirely removed my difficulties is evident from his comment found in my lecture note-book: “The ‘Electra of Euripides. (3.50)

2. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 697
   I renewed my acquaintance with Homer, Pericles, Sophocles, Euripides, Demosthenes, and many another glorious Greek. (3.50)

3. Nobody owns us; the story of Joe Gilbert, midwestern rebel page 184
   In another letter to Julie, he quoted the sentiment from Euripides that “man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. (2.37)

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2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. John Goode, Recollections of a lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia page 117
   But when you do, my dear Lucius, please don't do as you did when you delivered that 4th of July oration in Mississippi, when you roamed with Romulus, soaked with Socrates, ripped with Euripides, and died with Diogenes. (2.14)

2. John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and a sea grammar - Volume 1 page 26
   Where many began strangely to discant of those crosse beginnings, and him; which caused me remember an old saying of Euripides. (2.08)