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Book I Chapter 3 · I.3.46–I.3.48b
Ancient Greek
p. 12846 ⟨Ὁμήρου⟩
47 ⟨Εὐριπίδου Ἀρχελάου⟩
48a ⟨Σοφοκλῆς⟩
48b ⟨Ἀδήλου τραγικοῦ ποιητοῦ⟩
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 3
p. 12946 ⟨Homer⟩
And Zeus, angry with those men, rages who violently give crooked judgments in the assembly.137
47 ⟨Euripides, Archelaus⟩
Do you think you will ever defeat the gods’ wise designs, and that Justice has moved far away from mortals? She is close at hand: unseen, she sees, and knows whom she must punish. But you do not know when she will suddenly arrive and destroy the wicked.138
48a ⟨Sophocles⟩
If you have done terrible things, you must also suffer terrible things.139
48b ⟨An unidentified tragic poet⟩
And the divine light of Justice shone forth.
Socrates
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