Euripidis Tragoediae (Nauck 3rd ed.)

35 Philochorus, when he was over seventy years old; Eratosthenes says seventy-five. He was buried in Macedonia. A cenotaph was made for him in Athens, and an epigram was inscribed, composed by Thucydides the historian or Timotheus the songwriter:

40 > All of Greece is a memorial to Euripides; his bones are held

By the Macedonian earth, which received the end of his life;
His fatherland is Athens, the Greece of Greece. Having delighted many with the Muses,
He holds this praise from many.

They say that both memorials were struck by lightning. They also say
45 that Sophocles, hearing that he had died, came forward in a dark cloak, and brought the chorus and the actors into the proagon preliminary ceremony without garlands, and the people wept. He died in this manner. In Macedonia there is a village called Thracian because Thracians once lived there.
50 In it, a Molossian dog of Archelaus once arrived after wandering away. The Thracians, as was their custom, sacrificed and ate it, and Archelaus fined them a talent. Since they did not have it, they begged Euripides to obtain a release, and he requested it of the king. A long time later, Euripides was resting in a grove
55 outside the city. Archelaus had gone out for a hunt, and when the hounds were released by the hunters and encountered Euripides, the poet was torn apart and devoured. The hounds were descendants of the dog killed by the Thracians, whence also comes the proverb among the Macedonians
60 ‘the justice of the dog.’

They say that in Salamis he built a cave with an opening to the sea, where he spent his days fleeing the crowd; hence he takes most of his similes from the sea. He appeared sullen, thoughtful, and austere,
65 and a hater of laughter and a hater of women, just as Aristophanes accuses him: ‘Euripides is sullen for me to address.’ They say that after he married Choerine, the daughter of Mnesilochus, and realized her licentiousness, he wrote as his first drama the Hippolytus, in which he triumphs over the shamelessness of
70 women, and then sent her away. When the person who married her said, ‘She is modest with me,’ he said, ‘You are wretched, if you believe a woman...’