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| Μήδεια: τί δ’ ὀμφαλὸν γῆς θεσπιῳδὸν ἐστάλης; Αἰγεύς: παίδων ἐρευνῶν σπέρμ’ ὅπως γένοιτό μοι. |
| Medea: Why did you go to the prophetic heart of the world? Aegeus: For children: to find out how I could have them. |
| Euripides Medea 668-9 (494) |
| οὐ γὰρ δὴ οὕτω γε φρενοβλαβὴς ἦν ὁ Πρίαμος οὐδὲ οἱ ἄλλοι οἱ προσήκοντες αὐτῷ, ὥστε τοῖσι σφετέροισι σώμασι καὶ τοῖσι τέκνοισι καὶ τῇ πόλι κινδυνεύειν ἐβούλοντο, ὅκως Ἀλέξανδρος Ἑλένῃ συνοικέῃ. |
| Priam was not so crazed - and nor were his companions - to want to put their own bodies, children and the city at risk so that Paris could live with Helen. |
| Herodotus Histories 2.120 (514) |
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