“For pride grows rankly, and to ripeness brings The curse of fate, and reaps, for harvest, tears!”
Source: The Persians
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Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses
Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
“But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.”
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.”
“The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.”