The Apostle Paul himself thought it not unworthy to insert a verse of Euripides into the Text of Holy Scripture, I Cor.15.33.and Paraeus commenting on the Revelation, divides the whole Book as a Tragedy, into Acts distinguisht each by a Chorus of Heavenly Harpings and Song between.

Heretofore Men in highest dignity have labour'd not a little to be thought able to compose a Tragedy.

Of that honour Dionysius the elder was no less ambitious, then before of his attaining to the Tyranny.

Augustus Caesar also had begun his Ajax, but unable to please his own judgment with what he had begun, left it unfinisht.

Seneca the Philosopher is by some thought the Author of those Tragedies (at lest the best of them) that go under that name.