Excerpt from An English Commentary on the Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices, and Troades of Euripides: With the Scanning of Each Play, From the Latest and Best Authorities

The two main arguments against its authenticity are, that certain words and constructions and epic licenses occur in it which are not found in the other plays of Euripides, and, secondly, that the plot is tame and deficient in tragic inter est. To the first, it has been replied that there is hardly a play to which the same remark does not apply more or less, to the second, that the plot is Homer's, and not the poet's.

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