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PHRYGES: JUSTICE PROTECTS THE KING by AESCHYLUS

First Line: IF YOU WOULD DO A KINNESS TO THE DEAD
Last Line: AND JUSTICE WREAKS THEIR VENGEANCE FOR THE DEAD.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
IF you would do a kindness to the dead,
Or do an ill, it matters not that men
Are neither pleased nor grieved at what you do.
Yet Nemesis is mightier than we,
And Justice wreaks their vengeance for the dead.



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