A quotation from Euripides
MEDEA: They say the gods themselves
Are moved by gifts, and gold does more with men than words.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: Πείθειν δῶρα καὶ θεοὺς λόγος:
Χρυσὸς δὲ κρείσσων μυρίων λόγων βροτοῖς.
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδει
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MEDEA: They say the gods themselves
Are moved by gifts, and gold does more with men than words.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: Πείθειν δῶρα καὶ θεοὺς λόγος:
Χρυσὸς δὲ κρείσσων μυρίων λόγων βροτοῖς.
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 964ff (431 BC) [tr. Warner (1944)]
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MEDEA: They say the gods themselves Are moved by gifts, and gold does more with men than words. ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:Πείθειν δῶρα καὶ θεοὺς λόγος: Χρυσὸς δὲ κρείσσων μυρίων λόγων βροτοῖς. (Source (Greek)).
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