Euripides

Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE)

“O Zeus, why have you given men clear ways to recognize what gold is counterfeit, but on the body put no stamp by which one should distinguish a bad man?”

  • From Euripides’ Medea (approximately line 519), translated by James Morwood in Medea and Other Plays (Oxford University Press, 1997, 1998, 2008).

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