ADVERTISEMENT.
It may perhaps be necessary to acquaint
the reader, that Euripides has
written a tragedy upon the same subject.
In his Heraclidæ, Macaria is sacrificed in
the second act, and never afterwards
mentioned; and Acamas is a mute.
Indeed the whole conduct of this play
is so entirely different from that of the
Greek poet, that the author is hardly
conscious to himself of having borrowed
any thing more from him, than
the general idea of the Suppliants taking
refuge in the temple, and Macaria's voluntary
offer of her own life.
