A quotation from Euripides
CHORUS: You are neither the first nor the last of mortals
to lose a good wife. You have to learn
that death is a debt we all must pay.
[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: οὐ γάρ τι πρῶτος οὐδὲ λοίσθιος βροτῶν
γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἤμπλακες· γίγνωσκε δὲ
ὡς πᾶσιν ἡμῖν κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται.]
Euripide
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CHORUS: You are neither the first nor the last of mortals
to lose a good wife. You have to learn
that death is a debt we all must pay.
[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: οὐ γάρ τι πρῶτος οὐδὲ λοίσθιος βροτῶν
γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἤμπλακες· γίγνωσκε δὲ
ὡς πᾶσιν ἡμῖν κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις ], l. 417ff (438 BC) [tr. Leuschnig/Leuschnig (2019)]
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CHORUS: You are neither the first nor the last of mortals to lose a good wife. You have to learn that death is a debt we all must pay.
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