Euripidis Tragoediae (Nauck 3rd ed.)

...are owed to the curious assiduity of those men, to whom nothing should be believed 23. From other little stories, you could not wrongly gather that Euripides suffered from bad breath 24. He is said to have had three sons: Mnesarchides, a merchant; Mnesilochus, an actor; and Euripides, of whom the youngest edited some of his father’s tragedies 25.

23) In the Life of Euripides vs. 90 and in the Scholia to Frogs 944, we have seen above (note 21) what is thrown at Cephisophon. The Life adds other little tales (vs. 67): "They say that after he married the daughter of Mnesilochus, Choerile [sic], and perceived her wantonness, he wrote the first play Hippolytus, in which he celebrates the shamelessness of women, and then sent her away. And when the husband said to her, 'She is chaste with me,' [he] said, 'You are a wretch, if you think that a wife is chaste with whom [he] is, and not chaste with whom [he] is not.' He married a second, whom he found even more wanton, and more readily he became bold in the slander against women." The foundations of these tales are these: in Hippolytus, the poet overwhelms women with many insults; then in Electra 921, he said these things: "Let him know that when someone, having ruined another man’s wife in secret beds, is compelled to take her, he is a wretch if he thinks her chaste there, where he does not have her, and chaste where he does have her." Finally, in very many tragedies, he attacks women. Hieronymus of Rhodes reports [things] more witty than true (ap. Athenaeus XIII p. 557 E): "When someone said that Euripides is a woman-hater, Sophocles said: 'Yes, in his tragedies; but in bed, a woman-lover.'" Cf. Athenaeus XIII p. 603 E: "Sophocles was a lover of boys, as Euripides was a lover of women." Serenus (ap. Stobaeus, Florilegium 6, 36): "Someone was saying about Euripides that he was a woman-hater; and Sophocles said: 'But not in bed.'" Add what Hieronymus of Rhodes reports (ap. Athenaeus XIII p. 604 F) about Sophocles and Euripides, where this is placed as an epigram of Sophocles:

"He was a sun, not a boy, Euripides, who warmed me
And made me naked; but to you, loving another,
The North Wind came; but you are not wise, who, sowing
Someone else's [seed], carry off Eros as a thief."
I suspect this cold and witless poetry belongs to Hieronymus himself.
24) Aristotle, Politics 5, 10, p. 1311 b 30: "And Decamnichus was the leader of the attack on Archelaus—the cause of his anger was that he gave him up to be whipped by Euripides the poet; and Euripides was angry because [Decamnichus] had said something about the stench of his mouth." Stobaeus, Florilegium 41, 6: "When someone was reproaching Euripides because his mouth was foul, he said to him: 'For many secrets have rotted away inside it.'" Life of Euripides vs. 86: "When a certain uneducated youth said out of envy that he had a foul mouth, he said: 'Speak well, [for it is] a mouth sweeter than honey and Sirens.'" In the last words, he refers to the verse of Aristophanes brought forward above on page IX.