“Chorus of Furies: Living, you will be my feast, not slain at an altar”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 305 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“Its fury aims to shatter but our altars:
It scorns only the gods and never the mortals.”
Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,
Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
Stratonice, act I, scene iii
Referring to the early Christian church.
Polyeucte (1642)
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Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels, Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
Polyeucte (1642)
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