“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)
“Repute of justice, not just act, thou wishest.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 430 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 432 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 276–278 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“While from inward health doth flow,
Beloved of all, true bliss which mortals seek.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 535–537 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 273–275 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; And from your polity do not wholly banish fear. For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just? Hold fast such upright fear of the law’s sanctity,
Source: Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC) source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 526–530 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
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“Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 286 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“The default
Of one vote only bringeth ruin deep,
One, cast aright, may stablish house and home.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 750–751 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 550–552 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“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)
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 312–320 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
