“Memory, Muse-mother, doer of all things.”

—  Aeschylus , Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, line 461 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)

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Μνήμην ἁπάντων, μουσομήτορ' ἐργάνην.

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