The author considers Aeschylus's fr. 496 M. as part of the satyr-play «Circe». He bases his assert in the reading Ευθυμοσ on the second verse. This could be the name of the athlete Euthymus, who is said to have killed a wolf-shaped hero from Temesa, identified with the Polites companion to Odysseus in the Circe episode of the «Odyssey». In this fragment, some frightened satyrs (or Silenus) talk to Euthymus about the dangers of fighting against the hero. The play ended with Euthymus marrying the maid freed by him from the monster. Fragment 538 M. may belong to the same work: it describes the dangers the maid is passing through.

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