“Shame, which greatly hurts a man or helps,”[927]—
Euripides writes in Erechtheus:
“Of shame I find it hard to judge;
’Tis needed. ’Tis at times a great mischief.”
Take, by way of parallel, such plagiarisms as the following, from those who flourished together, and were rivals of each other. From the Orestes of Euripides:
“Dear charm of sleep, aid in disease.”
From the Eriphyle of Sophocles:
“Hie thee to sleep, healer of that disease.”
And from the Antigone of Sophocles:
“Bastardy is opprobrious in name; but the nature is equal;”[928]