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Rh and employ for his own purposes. He has 16 forms in, some of them drawn from Euripides. Th. 1066 comes from the beginning of the prologue of Euripides' Andromeda. It is probable that too in Th. 122 is taken from Euripides, for an ancient commentator on (120) reports that Aristophanes is here parodying the Erechtheus of Euripides, and the parody in all probability extends down to the words   at the end of the sentence, cf. Nauck, Eur. fr. 370. There are, besides, other passages, e. g. vss. 110, 120, in Agathon's lyric dialogue that remind one of Euripides. A similar expression, Av. 1100, may likewise have been drawn from some poetic source, compare Pindar's (O. 9, 40) and Stesichorus' words  quoted by Aristophanes in Pac. 798. found in Ran. 819 only is a direct reference to the poetry of Euripides, and, just as the long compounds, and (818–21) imitate the grandiose style of Aeschylus, so it is fair to assume that  is meant to be an imitation of Euripidean phraseology. Av. 746 is a word of which Euripides was fond, cf. Phoen. 655, H. F. 891, Bacch. 132, Ion 1474, El. 875, all lyric passages. On the other hand, occurs only once in Euripides, namely Phoen. 1265—the only place in tragedy, according to the Thesaurus—and here it is in iambic trimeter. Aristophanes' word is, even in choral passages, cf. Th. 956, 968, 980, 982, Ran. 336, 398, 1303. That there is parody in Av. 746 is most likely, since parodies both precede and follow, cf. Rossbach u. Westphal, Griech. Metrik$3$ 2, 402, Nauck, Phryn. fr. 19, p. 725, and v. d. Sande Bakhuyzen, De Parod. p. 82.

There is something of tragic bombast in the long trailing words, and