ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ δίκαιος ὢν οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται· πανώλεθρος <δ᾽> οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο. τὸν ἀντίτολμον δέ φαμι παρβάταν ἄγοντα πολλὰ παντόφυρτ᾽ ἄνευ δίκας βιαίως ξὺν χρόνῳ καθήσειν λαῖφος, ὅταν λάβῃ πόνος θραυομένας κεραίας. καλεῖ δ᾽ ἀκούοντας οὐδὲν <ἐν> μέσᾳ δυσπαλεῖ τε δίνᾳ· γελᾷ δὲ δαίμων ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ θερμῷ, τὸν οὔποτ᾽ αὐχοῦντ᾽ ἰδὼν ἀμαχάνοις δύαις λαπαδνὸν οὐδ᾽ ὑπερθέοντ᾽ ἄκραν· δι᾽ αἰῶνος δὲ τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον ἕρματι προσβαλὼν δίκας ὤλετ᾽ ἄκλαυτος, αἶστος.
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Confirmed with Aeschylus with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. Volume II. London: William Heinemann, NewYork: G. P. Putnam's Sons. MCMXXVI [1926], page page 322 (verses 550-565); and with Aeschyli tragoediae edidit A. Kirchhoff. Berolini apud Weidmannos, MDCCCLXXX [1880], pages 260-261 (verses 540-555).
The text is a short fragment from Aeschylus' Eumenides, sung by the Chorus of Furies.
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- by Aeschylus (525? BCE - 456 BCE) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine (1758 - 1831) , no title, first published 1814 [an adaptation] and sometimes misattributed to Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836); composed by Franz Peter Schubert.
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg) , no title
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