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place A. C. 407? and his bones were refused
to the request of his countrymen, by the king,
in whose friendship he had found tranquillity
and protection. He was buried at Arethusa
in Macedon. The disciple of Anaxagoras,
and the friend of Socrates, he infused the les-
sons of both into his poetical compositions,
and was justly denominated the Philosopher
of the Drama. Orators were charmed by his
eloquence. Demosthenes and Cicero made
his works their frequent study. The latter
was reading the plays of Euripides, when
he wras assassinated by Popilius A. C. 43,
Of this author's tragedies, only nineteen re-
main. It was said, that, after his death the
tomb of Euripides was struck by lightning;
a supposed token of deification which had
been granted only to Lycurgus, and was con-
sidered by his friends as a subject of highest
joy and exultation. A sepulchre or tumulus
was also erected to the memory of Euripides
at Athens, among those of other eminent men,
in the wray, between the Long Walls, from
Pira3us to the City.

The formidable competitor of Euripides,