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  1. A quotation from Euripides

    POLYMESTOR:                                        Shit.
       Nothing is credible, not a good reputation
       Nor that one who is lucky will not do badly in the end.
       The gods churn these waters up back and forth
       Mixing in confusion so that we worship them
       In our ignorance.
     
    [ΠΟΛΥΜΉΣΤΩΡ:                                        φεῦ·
       οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν πιστόν, οὔτ᾿ εὐδοξία
       οὔτ᾿ αὖ καλῶς πράσσοντα μὴ πράξειν κακῶς.
       φύρουσι δ᾿ αὐτὰ θεοὶ πάλιν τε καὶ πρόσω
       ταραγμὸν ἐντιθέντες, ὡς ἀγνωσίᾳ
       σέβωμεν αὐτούς.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 956ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/76763/

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