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Phoenissae (Euripides)
Euripides' Phoenissae
also: Phoenissae, the Phoenissae, Phoenician Women
A tragedy of Euripides on the war of the Seven against Thebes. Cicero quotes (and translates) its lines in which Eteocles declares that wrong may be done for the sake of a kingdom but piety kept in all else.
Reading notes
- On Duties §3.82 those Greek verses from the \textit{Phoenissae}
Lines from Euripides' tragedy Phoenissae, spoken by Eteocles, that wrong may be done for a kingdom's sake but piety kept in all else. Cicero ascribes them, in his coded portrait, to Caesar.