TO NEAPOLIS. 11 
EstericcB, Euripides fell sick and died'. Thus it chap. 
does not appear that he was torn in pieces by > ^i i 
those animals, as some have related ; but that 
he lost his life in consequence of a disorder 
occasioned by his being bitten by a pack of 
enraged hounds*. He might therefore have 
died of the disorder called hydrophobia. His 
sepulchre was constructed by order of Arche- 
laus : it was at the confluence of two streams ; situation 
of tlic 
the water of the one being poisonous, according Sepukhre 
ofEtJRl- 
to Pliny ^ ; and the other so sweet and salutary, pides. 
that travellers were wont to halt and take 
(5) 'E« Si Tut ^vyfiarav afpaiffTWanftt aiiroit aTtffatiiv. Stephanus de 
Urbib. &c. p. 184. L. Bat. 1697. 
(4) See the passage before cited from A ULUS Gellius. The circum- 
stance attending the death of Euripides is thus related by Diodorus: 
T/*£; Sj Xiysvixi, rraf ' A^-^eXiai ru (la^iXu Maxtioruv Kara t«» X'^i"'^ t|eA.- 
Sotra, KU17) Tsoi^iffiTv xa) 'Sia,<r9rafff>i*ai, x. r. X. Diodor. Sicul. Biblloth, 
Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 103. vol. V. p. 432. Argentor. Ann. 7 . Valerius 
Maximus has also mentioned the manner of it : " Sed atrocius aliquanto 
Euripides finitus est. Ab Archelai enim regis coena in Macedonia 
domum. hospitalem repetens, canum morsibus laniatus obiit. Crudelitas 
fatitantoingenio nondebita!" FaZeni il/axem?, lib. ix. cap. 12. ^.A55. 
ed. Delph. Paris, 1679. That authors, however, were not agreed as to 
the circumstances of his death, appears from I'ausanias, lib. i. and from 
SuiDAs in EignriSjif. Vide Diogenian et Apostol. in li^o/A^ou xvus ; 
Fabricium Biblioth. GrcBC. lib. ii. cap. 18. vol. II. p. 235. Hamburg. 
1796, &c. 
(5) " In Macedonia, non procul Euripidis po'clce sepulchro, duo rivi 
confluunt ; alter saluberrimi potus, alter mwrtiferi." Plinii Hist. Nat. 
lib. xxxi. cap. 2. torn. HI. pp. 264, 265. X. Bat. 1635. 
