Tuesday, March 05, 2024
Condign Punishment
Euripides, Orestes 413 (tr. Edward P. Coleridge):
Sophocles, fragment 962 Radt (p. 597; my translation):
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It is not strange, if those who have done dreadful things should suffer them.C.W. Willink ad loc.:
οὐ δεινὰ πάσχειν δεινὰ τοὺς εἰργασμένους.
If you did dreadful things, you should also suffer dreadful things.
εἰ δείν' ἔδρασας, δεινὰ καὶ παθεῖν σε δεῖ.
