Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses
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“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”
Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.”
“Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus