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Excerpt from De Hippolytis Euripideis Quaestiones Novae: Scripsit Augustus Kalkmann
Novas has quaestiones inscribo, non tantum quia materiam ab aliis tractatam retractavi, sed quia insolita ratione ab Hip polytis Euripideis ad serioris aetatis ]itteras ascendens in vasto maxime Alexandrinae poesis campo geminaram fabularum vestigia persequi conatus sum. Nam qui Hippolyti fabulam exami narit, quomodo a poetis et ab artificibus tractata sit, quod o im in libello praemio ornato praestiti, eum non fugiet, quantopere utraque Euripidis fabula etiam extra fines Atticus et audien tium et legentium amimos commoverit. Neque vero incom mode mihi videor antea nonnullas de servata Hippolyti fabula quaestiones, quae praecipue ad personarum mores spectant, pro ponere, cum illae, si quae umquam, non certi singulique homi nes sint, qui seme] vixerint, sed potins ad certum quoddam hominum genus pertineant An non intellegis, quantopere haec res imitationem adiuvare debuerit? Inde autem ad tragoediae deperditae imaginem redintegrandam progressi iam paratiores et quasi sponte ad alteram illam dissertationis partem traducemur.
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