In a passing clause of Poetics XXV, Aristotle appears to quote Sophocles when he said that the latter " created characters as they ought to be, Euripides as they really are" (1460b32–33).

在《诗学 XXV》的一个从句中， 亚里士多德似乎引用了索福克勒斯的话， 他说后者“创造了他们应该成为的人物，欧里庇得斯创造了他们本来的样子” （1460b32-33）。