“For love unlovely, when its evil spell
'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools,
Conjugial bands o'errules.”

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, lines 600–601 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

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θηλυκρατὴς ἀπέρωτος ἔρως παρανικᾷ κνωδάλων τε καὶ βροτῶν.

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ancient Athenian playwright -525–-456 BC

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