Sophocles I: The Complete Greek Tragedies, Third Edition by David Grene & Richmond Lattimore

Author:David Grene & Richmond Lattimore [Grene, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

CHORUS [singing]

STROPHE A

May destiny ever find me

pious in word and deed

865

prescribed by the laws that live on high:

laws begotten in the clear air of heaven,

whose only father is Olympus;

no mortal nature brought them to birth,

870

no forgetfulness shall lull them to sleep;

for god is great in them and grows not old.

ANTISTROPHE A

Insolence breeds the tyrant, insolence

if it is glutted with a surfeit, unseasonable, unprofitable,

875

climbs to the rooftop and plunges

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