“God on high
Looks graciously on him whom triumph's hour
Has made not pitiless.”

— Aeschylus , Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 951–952 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

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Τὸν κρατοῦντα μαλθακῶς θεὸς πρόσωθεν εὐμενῶς προσδέρκεται.

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