Thursday Sept 29th.
No letter again. I have been reading, Iphigenia in Aulide, for the first time. The opening is very un-Euripidœn—which I think Porson observes in his Prœlectio, but I forget his observations upon it.[1] A cloudy sunny looking day—like my disposition. Bummy A & I set off in the wheelbarrow, to go somewhere—perhaps, to the Wyche; but the rain began at the Barton corner, & we were obliged to turn our backs on the hills. Found Mrs. Cliffe & Eliza & Mr. Allen Cliffe at home, when we arrived there. They did not stay long.
1. Richard Porson, Prœlectio in Euripidem Recitata in Scholis Publicis Cantabrigiœ MDCCXCII (Cambridge, 1828). On p. 9 he observed that the opening of Iphigenia in Aulide is in the manner of Sophocles.
