¹ The text cited is that of Roux, J., ed., Euripide: Les Bacchantes i (Paris, 1970)Google Scholar.

² Cf. the testimonia collected by West, M. L., ed., Iambi et Elegi Graeci, ii (Oxford, 1972), pp. 81–2Google Scholar.

³ The poem, or at least ten lines of it, is preserved in Stob. 4.20.16.

⁴ Ep. 1.6.65f.

⁵ De virt. mor. 445F.

⁶ Corpus Paroemiagraphorum Graecorum, edd. Leutsch, E. v. and Schneidewin, F. G. ii (Göttingen, 1851), 678.17Google Scholar.

⁷ It should be noted that the collocation of Κύπρις or Ἀϕροδίτη and τερπνός is very rare indeed. A survey (employing the Ibycus program on the TLG database) of the major writers of the archaic and classical periods reveals a few examples of τέρπω/τέρπομαι in conjunction with Ἀϕροδίτη or Κύπρις but virtually none of the adjective τερπνός and either Κύπρις or Ἀϕροδίτη and only one, it seems, in a remotely comparable context, Euripides, Heracl. 893ff. Perhaps also the choice of μηκέτι, admittedly a common word, in 773 of the messenger's speech was influenced by its appearance in the second line of Mimnermus' poem.

⁸ See, e.g., the end of the second messenger's speech in this very play (1150–2).