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  1. A quotation from Euripides

    ADMETUS: For they loved me in words, not deeds.
     
    [ἌΔΜΗΤΟΣ: λόγῳ γὰρ ἦσαν οὐκ ἔργῳ φίλοι.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις ], l. 339ff (438 BC) [tr. Aldington (1930)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/86059/

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