Euripidis Tragoediae (Nauck 3rd ed.)

This is the twentieth day of the month of Boedromion 2. With this agree the accounts we have received regarding the poet's death from Eratosthenes and Apollodorus 3. The Parian Marble disagrees, where Euripides is said to have been born in the archonship of Philocrates at Athens (73rd Olympiad, 4th year, or 485 B.C.) and to have been 43 years old in the archonship of Diphilus at Athens (84th Olympiad, 3rd year, or 442 B.C.) 4. His father is called Mnesarchus by some, Mnesarchides by others 5, his mother Clito. Witnesses disagree regarding their lineage and affairs; most make the father a shopkeeper 6, and narrate that the mother sold vegetables.

2) Besides the life of Eur. cf. Diog. L. 2.45: Euripides, who was also born in the first year of the 75th Olympiad in the archonship of Calliades. Plut. Mor. p. 717 C: Euripides... born on the day the Greeks fought the sea battle at Salamis against the Mede. Hesychius Illustr. in Müller Fragm. Hist. vol. 4 p. 163: Euripides is born on the day the Greeks defeated the Persians in the sea battle against Xerxes, foreshadowing good fortune for the Athenians. Regarding the day of the battle of Salamis, v. Clinton's Fast. Hell. vol. 2 p. 30 ed. Kr.
3) Vita Eur. vs. 34: He died, as Philochorus says, having lived over seventy years, and as Eratosthenes says, 75. Diodorus 13.103: Apollodorus, who undertook the chronological compilation, says that Euripides also died in the same year, i.e., 406 B.C. or 93rd Olympiad, 3rd year, in the archonship of Callias. In this year Dionysius the Elder seized power, according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ant. Rom. 7.1 p. 1313. Plutarch is mistaken in Mor. p. 717 C: when Dionysius, the elder of the tyrants in Sicily, was born (Euripides died in the year... wait, the original text says "died when he was born"—this is a biographical contradiction in the source text).
4) Corp. Inscr. 2374, 65, 66, 75, 76.
5) Suidas: Euripides, son of Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides. Corp. Inscr. 6051: Euripides, son of Mnesarchus, Athenian. Corp. Inscr. 6052: Euripides, son of Mnesarchides, Salaminian tragic poet. In the Euripidean life, the books disagree. The patronymic form is upheld by the author of the oracle handed down by Eusebius (see note 13). Furthermore, similar varieties in other names are very frequent: regarding this I have brought forward some things in Aristoph. Byz. p. 2, others in Alfr. Fleckeisen in Philol. vol. 4 p. 327.
6) Vita: The poet Euripides became the son of Mnesarchides, a shopkeeper, and Clito, a vegetable-seller. Nicolaus Damascenus ap. Stob. Flor. 44.41 vol. 2 p. 187, 17 ed. Meineke: Some Boeotians, when bringing those who do not pay their debt to the marketplace, order them to sit, then place a basket upon them; whoever is "basketed" becomes dishonored. It seems that the father of Euripides also suffered this, being of Boeotian descent.