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Date: c. 458 BC
"This now at one moment bodes ill, while then again hope, shining with kindly light from the sacrifices, wards off the biting care of the sorrow that gnaws my heart."
preview | full record— Aeschylus (c. 525/524 BC-c. 456/455)
Date: c. 458 BC
"Zeus, whoever he may be,--if by this name it pleases him to be invoked, by this name I call to him--as I weigh all things in the balance, I have nothing to compare save “Zeus,” if in truth I must cast aside this vain burden from my heart."
preview | full record— Aeschylus (c. 525/524 BC-c. 456/455)
