by Aeschylus (525? BCE - 456 BCE)

ἑkὼn d᾽ ἀnankas ἄter dikaios ὢn
Language: Greek (Ελληνικά) 
ἑkὼn d᾽ ἀnankas ἄter dikaios ὢn
oὐk ἄnolbos ἔstai;
panōlethros  oὔpot᾽ ἂn genoito.
tὸn ἀntitolmon de phami parbatan
ἄgonta pollὰ pantophyrt᾽ ἄneu dikas
biaiōs xὺn chronῳ kathēsein
laῖphos, ὅtan labῃ ponos
thrauomenas keraias.

kaleῖ d᾽ ἀkoyontas oὐdὲn <ἐn> mesᾳ
dyspaleῖ te dinᾳ;
gelᾷ dὲ daimōn ἐp᾽ ἀndrὶ thermῷ,
tὸn oὔpot᾽ aὐchoῦnt᾽ ἰdὼn ἀmachanois
dyais lapadnὸn oὐd᾽ ὑpertheont᾽ ἄkran;
di᾽ aἰῶnos dὲ tὸn prὶn ὄlbon
ἕrmati prosbalὼn dikas
ὤlet᾽ ἄklautos, aἶstos.

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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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