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The Suppliants

EuripidésOriginal title Ἱκέτιδες

The Suppliants , also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, first performed in 423 BC, is an ancient Greek play by Euripides.

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“Naught is more hostile to a city than a despot; where he is, there are in the first place no laws common to all, but one man is tyrant, in whose keeping and in his alone the law resides, and in that case equality is at an end.”

Euripidés The Suppliants

Suppliants (tr. Edward P. Coleridge)

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