“Ariane, my sister, wounded by what love,
You died on the shores where you were abandoned.”

—  Jean Racine, Phèdre

Ariane, ma sœur, de quel amour blessée,
Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée.
Phèdre, act I, scene III.
Phèdre (1677)

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