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Excerpt from A Compendium to Poetry: Its Origin, Nature, and History; Containing the Works of the Poets of All Times and Countries, With Explanatory Notes, Synoptical Tables, a Chronological Digest and a Copious Index
Myrtis. - Several lyrical pieces, of which none are now extant.
Sophoclesfi - One-hundred-and-thirty plays, but only seven now extant, Antigone, E lectm, T mafu'm'e, Kin A fax, Plu'loctetes, first acted (409 and the (fights in Colonm. Oi the others we only possess afew fragments, and sometimes no more than the titles.
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