^{page 9 note 1} Euripides the Rationalist, by A. W. Verrall.

^{page 9 note 2} LI. 261–6.

^{page 9 note 3} L. 5.

^{page 9 note 4} L. 28.

^{page 10 note 1} LI. 61–72.

^{page 10 note 2} L. 113: .

^{page 11 note 1} LI. 887–898 and 1041 ff.

^{page 12 note 1} Hippolytus, .

^{page 12 note 2} Fragm. 436 (Nauck). If we read σθ⋯νειν for σ⋯βειν with Gomperz, it does not perceptibly alter the sense. The preceding context may have accounted for some apparently missing word.

^{page 12 note 3} Fragm. 440.

^{page 12 note 4} Fragm. 442. The text given follows that quoted by Stobaeus.

^{page 12 note 5} Fragm. 448.

^{page 13 note 1} Aristophanes, Frogs, 11. 102 and 1471, etc.

^{page 13 note 2} Aristotle, Rhet. III. 15.

^{page 13 note 3} LI. 786–7.

^{page 13 note 4} LI. 88–9

^{page 14 note 1} Paul Decharme, Euripide et l' Esprit de son Théâtre, p. 101: ‘Cette obligation (du serment) passait jadis pour si forte qu'elle enchaînait, disait-on, les dieux eux-mêmes.’ He quotes Theog. 793 in support, but overlooks the Poseidon episode in the Hippolytus.

^{page 14 note 2} Cf. Eur. I.A. 394: .