The same play furnished Stobæus with an excellent observation on garrulity:
#anêr gar hostis hêdetai legôn aei lelêthen hauton tois xynousin ôn barys.#[24]
Also with a good remark upon the value of sound common-sense:
#psychê gar eunous kai phronousa toundikon kreissôn sophistou pantos estin heuretis.#[25]
The _Aleadæ_ supplied this pungent diatribe upon the contrast between poverty and wealth:
#ta chrêmat' anthrôpoisin heuriskei philous, authis de timas eita tês hypertatês tyrannidos thakousin aischistên hedran. epeita d' oudeis echthros oute phyetai pros chrêmath' hoi te phyntes arnountai stygein. deinos gar herpein ploutos es te tabata kai pros bebêla, chôpothen penês anêr mêd' entychôn dynait' an hôn erâi tychein. kai gar dyseides sôma kai dysônymon, glôssêi sophon tithêsin eumorphon t' idein. monôi de chairein kai nosein exousia parestin autôi kapikrypsasthai kaka.#[26]
In the _Locrian Ajax_ we find two single lines worth preservation:
#sophoi tyrannoi tôn sophôn xynousiâi;#[27]
#anthrôpos esti pneuma kai skia monon.#[28]
This charming description comes from the _Ægeus_, recalling Athens, where the poplars grow so large and leafy:
#hôsper gar en phylloisin aigeirou makras, kan allo mêden, alla toukeinês kara aura kradainei kanakouphizei pteron.#[29]
Some scattered utterances upon women and love may be collected from the _Phædra_, in which play Sophocles broke the ground trodden by Euripides:
#erôs gar andras ou monous eperchetai oud' au gynaikas alla kai theôn anô psychas charassei kapi ponton erchetai. kai tond' apeirgein oud' ho pankratês sthenei Zeus all' hypeikei kai thelôn enklinetai.
houtô gynaikos ouden an meizon kakon kakês anêr ktêsait' an oude sôphronos kreisson; pathôn d' hekastos hôn tychêi legei.#[30]
The next fragment, extracted possibly from the _Colchian Women_, deserves to be compared with similar Euripidean passages, though in point of workmanship it is finer, and in profound suggestion more intense, than is the usual manner of Euripides:
#ô paides hê toi Kypris ou Kypris monon all' esti pollôn onomatôn epônymos. estin men Haidês esti d' aphthitos bia estin de lyssa mainas esti d' himeros akratos est' oimôgmos. en keinêi to pan spoudaion hêsychaion es bian agon. entêketai gar pneumonôn hosois eni psychê. tis ouchi têsde tês theou bora? eiserchetai men ichthyôn plôtôi genei enesti d' en chersou tetraskelei gonêi; nômâi d' en oiônoisi toukeinês pteron en thêrsin en brotoisin en theois anô. tin' ou palaious' es tris ekballei theôn? ei moi themis, themis de talêthê legein, Dios tyrannei pneumonôn; aneu doros aneu sidêrou panta toi syntemnetai Kypris ta thnêtôn kai theôn bouleumata.#[31]