“You are by your epiphany a veritable "god from the machine."”

—  Menander

The Woman Possessed with a Divinity, fragment 227, as translated in ‪Menander: The Principal Fragments‬‎ (1921) by Francis Greenleaf Allinson; this is one of the earliest occurrences of the phrase which became famous in its Latin form as "Deus ex machina."

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Athenian playwright of New Comedy -342–-291 BC

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