that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, an… - Aeschylus

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that we must suffer, suffer into truth.
We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
the pain of pain remembered comes again
and we resist.

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Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

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Native Name: Αἰσχύλος

Alternative Names: Æschylus • Aeschylos

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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

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μήτηρ, γυνὴ σωτῆρος.

If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist. - Aeschylus

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