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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Thanks to the Gods
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 233-234 (tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):
It is thanks to the gods that we dwell in an unconquered
City
and that our wall keeps off the enemy horde.