Great rage and stupidity — two evils for those affected by them — have destroyed many mortals.See Annette Harder, Euripides' Kresphontes and Archelaos. Introduction, Text and Commentary (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985), pp. 260-262.
πολλοὺς δ' ὁ θυμὸς ὁ μέγας ὤλεσεν βροτῶν
ἥ τ' ἀξυνεσία, δύο κακὼ τοῖς χρωμένοις.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Two Evils
Euripides, fragment 257 Kannicht (from Archelaos; tr. C. Collard, M.J. Cropp, and J. Gibert):