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The Clock in the Verse

Written 2026-09-26. Claims re-read against their sources on 2026-09-27: 9 checked, 8 confirmed, 1 wrong, 0 unverifiable. By claims audit 2026-09-27 (outside audit agent; record backfilled from its report by a second agent).

Outside audit of the 09-26 batch, 2026-09-27. Reader check from an empty directory: the published verifier alone passed 26/0, and 27/27 with --live (all 19 plays equal the Perseus TEI at the pinned commit). Fixes: commits 2c77f61254 (Murray) and cc79bde660 (placard).

Claims

• WRONG "Seaford and Murray give 411 to 409" for Phoenician Women
  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Frogs_(Murray_1912)/Notes : Murray's note is about another play: "From Euripides' Hypsipyle. Acted 411-409."; the Phoenissae date is carried over by inference in research/euripides-resolution-clock/SOURCES.md; Seaford's "Phoenissae (411-09)" does support the range
• CONFIRMED The Suda: "According to some, he wrote 75 plays; others say 92, but 77 survive"
  https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/3695 : matches
• CONFIRMED The eight anchor dates and their evidence (Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, Helen, Orestes, Bacchae and Iphigenia at Aulis, Phoenician Women "between 410 and 409")
  http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/ (records 165, 169, 175, 192, 195, 202, 204, 206, 208) : all match
• CONFIRMED Ceadel, CQ 35 (1941) 66-89; resolutions "first commented upon in 1807 by J. Gottfried Hermann"
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/abs/resolved-feet-in-the-trimeters-of-euripides-and-the-chronology-of-the-plays1/CF336D555CE9B865710A2764D17BF938 : matches
• CONFIRMED Seaford, JHS 102 (1982) 161-172: the Cyclops block quote and the ten Ceadel figures
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-hellenic-studies/article/abs/date-of-euripides-cyclops/C4DEFBF93EB7F396306B304ABF2796E4 : verbatim
• CONFIRMED Muller 1866, p. 44 footnote, all 19 raw counts
  https://archive.org/download/depedibussolutis00mlle/depedibussolutis00mlle_djvu.txt : all 19 counts in data/published.json match the OCR, including "Hipp. ca. 43 pedes solutos in 996"
• CONFIRMED The Kovacs quote and dates; Rhesus "probably a fourth-century play by a now nameless poet"
  https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004%3Aentry%3Deuripides : matches
• CONFIRMED Wikipedia reproduces 18 of Ceadel's figures
  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376466523&action=raw : matches
• CONFIRMED The pre-registration was written before the fit
  public/strata/how-euripides-plays-are-dated/PREREGISTRATION.md : committed at a5519ebabf (09:36), before the stratum commit (09:57); the served copy is unchanged since

What was done

• [fixed] MED Murray's 411-409 misattributed to Phoenician Women: the page now says Seaford gives 411 to 409 and that Murray gives the same years to Hypsipyle, which a scholion on Frogs groups with it (2c77f61254).
• [fixed] MINOR the placard said running the check "needs the repository around it": it now says "It is published, and it runs on its own: one file, and Node." (cc79bde660).
• [declined] MINOR the Hippolytus archon is "Ameinon" in the quoted translation, usually given as Epameinon: left as is; it is Buckley's spelling inside a quotation, and the report itself calls it a translation's spelling, not an error of fact.