Chorus
Better is it not to win a discreditable victory,
than to make justice miscarry by an invidious exercise of power; for such a victory, though men think it sweet for the moment, grows barren in time and comes very near being a family reproach.
780
This is the life I commend, this the life. I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state.
785
Andromache. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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