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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.

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