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Euripides
also: Euripides
The Athenian tragedian (c. 480-406 BC); Quintus Cicero quotes a line of his on cold and the delicate constitution in Fam. 16.8, calling each of his verses a piece of testimony.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 16.8 §2 so Euripides says
The line quoted in Greek ('cold is the bitterest enemy of a delicate skin') is attributed to the Athenian tragedian Euripides; Quintus says he treats each of Euripides's verses as a single piece of evidence.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.105 Euripides put it well
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), the Athenian tragedian, here quoted for the line "sweet is the memory of labors past." Cicero renders the Greek verse into Latin to counter the Epicurean ban on dwelling on hardship.
- Tusculan Disputations §1.65 as Euripides dares to say, is a god
A bold line from a lost play of Euripides identifying the mind (nous) within us with god. Cicero cites it to support his own claim that the soul is divine.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.59 that famous song of Euripides
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), the Athenian tragedian. The quoted chorus on the universal necessity of death (probably from the Hypsipyle) was praised by Chrysippus but dismissed by Carneades as no real comfort.