“Chorus of Furies: Living, you will be my feast, not slain at an altar”

—  Aeschylus , Eumenides

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 305 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)

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καὶ ζῶν με δαίσεις οὐδὲ πρὸς βωμῷ σφαγείς

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