A quotation from Euripides
CREON: Now stay here, if you must,
This one day. You can hardly in one day accomplish
What I am afraid of.
[ΚΡΈΩΝ: νῦν δ᾽, εἰ μένειν δεῖ, μίμν᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡμέραν μίαν:
οὐ γάρ τι δράσεις δεινὸν ὧν φόβος μ᾽ ἔχει. ]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 355ff (431 BC)[tr. Vellacott (1963)]
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CREON: Now stay here, if you must,
This one day. You can hardly in one day accomplish
What I am afraid of.
[ΚΡΈΩΝ: νῦν δ᾽, εἰ μένειν δεῖ, μίμν᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡμέραν μίαν:
οὐ γάρ τι δράσεις δεινὸν ὧν φόβος μ᾽ ἔχει. ]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 355ff (431 BC)[tr. Vellacott (1963)]
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CREON:Now stay here, if you must, This one day. You can hardly in one day accomplish What I am afraid of. [ΚΡΈΩΝ: νῦν δ᾽, εἰ μένειν δεῖ, μίμν᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡμέραν μίαν: οὐ γάρ τι δράσεις δεινὸν ὧν φόβος μ᾽ ἔχει.
Dave (WIST Quotations)