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| φίλοι, γυναικὸς δαίμον’ εὐτυχέστερον τοὐμοῦ νομίζω, καίπερ οὐ δοκοῦνθ’ ὅμως. |
| Friends, my wife's fate is better than mine, I think, although it doesn't seem so. |
| Euripides Alcestis 935-6 (147) |
| ὦ δέσποτ’ Αἴας, τῆς ἀναγκαίας τύχης οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν μεῖζον ἀνθρώποις κακόν. |
| Ajax, my lord, mankind has no greater suffering than the inevitability of destiny. |
| Sophocles Ajax 485-6 (201) |
| ὑμεῖς δὲ σκέψασθε ὅσον ἂν καὶ τοῦτο ἁμαρτάνοιτε Κλέωνι πειθόμενοι. |
| Only consider what a blunder you would commit in doing as Cleon recommends. |
| Thucydides The Peloponnesian War 3.47 (488) |