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A Quotation from Euripides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Extract

This famous iambic line is described—alike by commentators on the New Testament and by writers on the Greek drama—as a quotation in the first place from the lost Thaïs of Menander, and it is further stated that it was there borrowed from some play of Euripides no longer extant. In view of the revival of interest in Euripides during recent years, it seems worth while to examine the line in detail, and to see whether, in the light of our present knowledge, any further information can be extracted as to its precise source.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1925

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References

page 22 note 1 See the account in Nauck, (Tragicorum Grae-corum Fragments, 1889, Eur. fr. 1024)Google Scholar , or Wetstein ad 1 Cor. xv. 33.

page 22 note 2 ad Amphiloch. quaest. 151.

page 22 note 3 Comic. Graec., p. 351.

page 23 note 1 See the account in Meineke.

page 23 note 2 Loeb Classical Library, 1921.

page 23 note 3 See Allinson.

page 25 note 1 ‘οὐκ ȄστΙν …’ is a very common locution with Euripides, as will be seen.

page 25 note 2 Aristophanes, , Frogs, 1. 1217Google Scholar.

page 26 note 1 The reference to the writer in Titus i. 12 seems plainly to mean Epimenides.

page 26 note 2 Life and Work of St. Paul, Excursus III.