he was quietly inurned, a deep interest, and even a tender sentiment, attached to his tomb. It was situated near the confluence of two rivers, where there appears to have been a house or caravansary, at which travellers refreshed themselves, attracted by the purity of the air. Of the rivers, one was noted for the unwholesome character of its water.[1] From another account it may be inferred that the tomb was much visited, even if pilgrimages were not made to it.[2]
On his cenotaph was graven the following inscription:—
"To Hellas' bard all Hellas gives a tomb:
On Macedon's far shores his relics sleep:
Athens, the pride of Greece, was erst his home,
Whom now all praise and all in common weep."[3]
These lines, attributed to Thucydides the historian, or to Timotheus the musician, are difficult to reconcile with the caricature-portraits of him by Aristophanes; yet are consistent with the opinion that it was the conservative party in Athens, and not Athenians generally, that were hostile to him in life, or to the memory of—
"Our Euripides, the human,
With his droppings of warm tears,
And his touches of things common,
Till they rose to touch the spheres."[4]
In one thing he was happier than Sophocles—"op-
