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“ ”black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue
Euripides (Greek: Εὐριπίδης; c. 480 BC–406 BC) was a Greek playwright.
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O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
Oh, say, how call ye this,
To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kiss
Betrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these:
'Tis but of all man's inward sicknesses
The vilest, that he knoweth not of shame
Nor pity! Yet I praise him that he came . . .
To me it shall bring comfort, once to clear
My heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear.
CHOR. Some dreadful wrath of the Gods hath burst forth, and leads the seed of Tantalus through troubles.