It was, like the medea of Ennius, a translation from Euripides.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
One at least of his tragedies, the medea, was literally translated from the Greek of Euripides, whom he seems to have made his model, in preference to the older Attic dramatists.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Spearing, 1913, Preface of medea.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos