“But when the dust has drawn up the blood of a man, once he is dead, there is no return to life.”

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 647–648 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)

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ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἐπειδὰν αἷμ᾽ ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις ἅπαξ θανόντος, οὔτις ἔστ᾽ ἀνάστασις.

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