“Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 286 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”
Variant translations:
Time brings all things to pass.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
Original
Ἀλλ' ἐκδιδάσκει πάνθ' ὁ γηράσκων χρόνος.
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Aeschylus 119
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