Do you seriously suppose that one who has studied the plays of
that great man, Euripides, would ever begin a tragedy in such a
ranting style?

CALLIDEMUS.
What, does not your play open with the speech of Prometheus?

SPEUSIPPUS.
No doubt.

CALLIDEMUS.
Then what, in the name of Bacchus, do you make him say?

SPEUSIPPUS.
You shall hear; and, if it be not in the very style of Euripides,
call me a fool.

CALLIDEMUS.
That is a liberty which I shall venture to take, whether it be or
no. But go on.

SPEUSIPPUS.
Prometheus begins thus:--

"Coelus begat Saturn and Briareus
Cottus and Creius and Iapetus,
Gyges and Hyperion, Phoebe, Tethys,
Thea and Rhea and Mnemosyne.
Then Saturn wedded Rhea, and begat
Pluto and Neptune, Jupiter and Juno."