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Aeschylus Eumenides
"Hear my decree now, people of Attica—you who are judging the first trial of bloodshed. For the people of Aegeus, this council of judges shall stand forever." (Lines 681–684)
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Aeschylus Libation Bearers
"What then becomes of the oracles of Loxias... and the sworn pledges? Count all men your enemies rather than the gods." (Lines 900–902)
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Aeschylus Agamemnon
"The house reeks of blood-dripping slaughter... the breath of the tomb is in my nostrils." (Lines 1309–1311)
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Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes
The air, hurtling with spears, maddens withal. How goes it with our city? What is to be? Whither and what the issue that Heaven brings on ?
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Aeschylus The Persians
Of all the Persians those in their strong prime, Highest of heart, noblest of lineage, Faithfullest servants of our lord the king, Lie dead in shamed dishonourable graves.
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Aeschylus The Suppliants
on earth a godhost gives order to nature Which god should I cry to? Whose acts will answer me?
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Psalter or the book of Psalms
There goe the ships; there is that Leuiathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Prometheus and Atlas, Laconian black figure kylix, by the Arkesilas Painter, 560 550 BC, inv. 16592 Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vatican Museums DSC01069
Hesiod Theogony
"We know how to speak many false things that resemble the truth, but we also know, when we are willing, how to proclaim true things."
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Hesiod Works and Days
"Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes…
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Homer the Illiad
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."