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Grace is Somehow Violent

November 18, 2020 By Jordan

Zeus, who guided men to think,

who has laid it down that wisdom

comes alone through suffering.

Still there drips in sleep against the heart

grief of memory; against

our will temperance comes.

From the gods who sit in grandeur

grace is somehow violent.

…Strophe C, lines 181-182, Agamemnon by Aeschylus, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore

Filed Under: Predicates and commas and whatnot, Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: Aeschylus, Agamemnon