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AESCHYLUS

                                 ὧδε γάρ κρατεῖ

γυναικὸς ἀνδρόβουλον ἐλπίζον κέαρ.

For so rules a woman's manly-purposed heart expectant.

Agamemnon 10

βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ μέγας βέβηκεν.

A great ox has trodden on my tongue [i.e. I am constrained to silence].

Agamemnon 36

πάθει μάθος.

Through suffering comes learning.

Agamemnon 177

                         νῦν δέ μοι, φίλον κάρα,

ἔκβαιν' ἀπήνης τῆσδε, μὴ χαμαὶ τιθεὶς

τὸν σὸν πόδ', ὦναξ, Ἰλίου πορθήτορα.

Now please, dear heart, step out of this carriage, but set not your foot on the earth, my lord, the foot that destroyed Troy!

Agamemnon 905

φήμη γε μέντοι δημόθρους μέγα σθένει.

The buzz of popular talk is something of great power.

Agamemnon 938

οὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος, ἀλλ' εἶναι θέλει.

For he desires not to seem the best, but to be it.

Seven Against Thebes 592

ὅταν σπεύδῃ τις αὐτός, χὠ θεὸς συνάπτεται.

Whenever one is eager himself, the god too lends a hand.

Persae 742

τέχνη δ' ἀνάγκης ἀσθενεστέρα μακρῷ.

Craft is weaker than necessity by far.

Prometheus Bound 514

δεινὸς ὃς θεοὺς σέβει.

He is to be feared who fears the gods.

Seven Against Thebes 596

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