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 Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 1. Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 1.
  
-====== Euripides ======+====== Euripides: Poems ======
  
-“The poet Euripides was the son of a shop-keeper Mnesarchus and a greengrocer Cleito, an Athenian, but born at Salamis in the archonship of Calliades (480 B.C.) in the 75th Olympiad, when the Greeks fought the Persians at sea ... He brought out his first play in the archonship of Callias (456 B.C.). The number of his dramas amounted in all to 902, of which 78 are extant. He died according to Philochorus at over seventy years of age, according to Eratosthenes at seventy-five, and was buried in Macedonia.1” Life of Euripides+“The poet Euripides was the son of a shop-keeper Mnesarchus and a greengrocer Cleito, an Athenian, but born at Salamis in the archonship of Calliades (480 B.C.) in the 75th Olympiad, when the Greeks fought the Persians at sea ... He brought out his first play in the archonship of Callias (456 B.C.). The number of his dramas amounted in all to 902, of which 78 are extant. He died according to Philochorus at over seventy years of age, according to Eratosthenes at seventy-five, and was buried in Macedonia.1”  
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 +Life of Euripides
  
 ===== Lament and Inscription ===== ===== Lament and Inscription =====
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 Lament for the Athenians Who Fell in Sicily Lament for the Athenians Who Fell in Sicily
  
-After their defeat and destruction Euripides composed a lament or epitaph:+After their defeat and destruction Euripides composed a lament or epitaph:
  
-These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favour of the Gods was equal for both sides.+//These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favour of the Gods was equal for both sides.//
  
-CURFRAG.tlg-0006.1 +Plutarch Life of Nicias 
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-” Plutarch Life of Nicias +
  
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-According to Eparchides, the poet Euripides was once staying in the isle of Icaros, when a certain woman and her children, two grown-up sons and one unmarried daughter, all died of poisonous mushrooms which they ate in the fields, whereupon he composed the following inscription: +According to Eparchides, the poet Euripides was once staying in the isle of Icaros, when a certain woman and her children, two grown-up sons and one unmarried daughter, all died of poisonous mushrooms which they ate in the fields, whereupon he composed the following inscription:
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-O Sun whose path lies through the unaging vault of heaven, did thy eye ever behold so sad a thing as a mother and a maiden daughter and two sons perishing on the same destined day?2+
  
-CURFRAG.tlg-0006.2+//O Sun whose path lies through the unaging vault of heaven, did thy eye ever behold so sad a thing as a mother and a maiden daughter and two sons perishing on the same destined day?2//
  
-” Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner [on mushrooms]+Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner [on mushrooms]
  
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