1115.——οὐδὲν τὸ δοῦλον πρὸς τὸ μὴ δοῦλον γένος.
Such was the reply of Pylades to his friend Orestes, in reference to the Phrygian slave; and we shall close our quotations from this remarkable tragic poet, with an interview between Orestes and one of these Phrygian slaves.
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Orestes. Δοῦλος ὤν φοβεῖ τὸν Ἁΐδην, ὅς σ’ ἀπαλλάξει κακῶν; ΐ Slave. Πᾶς ἀνὴρ, κἂν δοῦλος ᾖ τις, ἥδεται τὸ φῶς ὁρῶν.
Potter—
Orestes. “Fears a slave death, the end of all his ills?
Slave. “To slave or free, sweet is the light of heaven.”
Alcestes, line 638—
δουλίου δ’ ἀφ’ αἵματος
μαστῷ γυναικὸς σῆς ὑπεβλήθην λάθρα.