Wednesday, September 16, 2020

 

Live Free or Die

Euripides, fragment 245, lines 8-9 (tr. Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp):
Just one thing I urge upon you: never consent to live and go into slavery when you can choose to die as befits a free man.

ἓν δέ σοι μόνον προφωνῶ· μὴ ᾿πὶ δουλείαν ποτὲ
ζῶν ἑκὼν ἔλθῃς παρόν σοι κατθανεῖν ἐλευθέρως.
Related post: Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:33 AM


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