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Euripides, Hecuba, 1187-1194
̓Αγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε Never ought words to have outweighed deeds in this world, Agamemnon. No! if a man’s deeds were good, so should his words have been;
τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον: Never ought words to have outweighed deeds in this world, Agamemnon. No! if a man’s deeds were good, so should his words have been;
ἀλλ', εἴτε χρήστ' ἔδρασε, χρήστ' ἔδει λέγειν Never ought words to have outweighed deeds in this world, Agamemnon. No! if a man’s deeds were good, so should his words have been;
εἴτ' αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have been unsound, instead of its being possible at times to speak injustice well. There are, it is true, clever persons, who have made a science of this, but their cleverness cannot last for ever; a miserable end awaits them; no one ever yet escaped.
καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ' εὖ λέγειν ποτέ. if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have been unsound, instead of its being possible at times to speak injustice well. There are, it is true, clever persons, who have made a science of this, but their cleverness cannot last for ever; a miserable end awaits them; no one ever yet escaped.
σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰς' οἱ τάδ' ἠκριβωκότες if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have been unsound, instead of its being possible at times to speak injustice well. There are, it is true, clever persons, who have made a science of this, but their cleverness cannot last for ever; a miserable end awaits them; no one ever yet escaped.
ἀλλ' οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have been unsound, instead of its being possible at times to speak injustice well. There are, it is true, clever persons, who have made a science of this, but their cleverness cannot last for ever; a miserable end awaits them; no one ever yet escaped.
κακῶς δ' ἀπώλοντ': οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω. if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have been unsound, instead of its being possible at times to speak injustice well. There are, it is true, clever persons, who have made a science of this, but their cleverness cannot last for ever; a miserable end awaits them; no one ever yet escaped.

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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 28 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 28. “You who tend sheep, full of iniquity
2. Aristophanes, Frogs, 775 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 775. τῶν ἀντιλογιῶν καὶ λυγισμῶν καὶ στροφῶν
3. Euripides, Andromache, 184-191, 319-332, 183 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Euripides, Bacchae, 267-283, 328-329, 266 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 266. ὅταν λάβῃ τις τῶν λόγων ἀνὴρ σοφὸς 266. Whenever a wise man takes a good occasion for his speech, it is not a great task to speak well. You have a rapid tongue as though you were sensible, but there is no sense in your words.
5. Euripides, Electra, 899 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Euripides, Hecuba, 10, 1076-1080, 11, 1114-1119, 1131-1182, 1188-1199, 12, 1200-1207, 1217-1237, 1240-1251, 1253-1255, 1258, 1260, 1265-1274, 1292, 13-19, 2, 20-24, 244, 25, 254-257, 26-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-59, 6, 661, 669, 675, 7, 714-715, 726-727, 736-799, 8, 800-899, 9, 900-904, 919, 923-925, 934, 946-949, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1. ̔́Ηκω νεκρῶν κευθμῶνα καὶ σκότου πύλας 1. I have come from out of the charnel-house and gates of gloom, where Hades dwells apart from gods, I Polydorus, a son of Hecuba, the daughter of Cisseus, and of Priam. Now my father, when Phrygia ’s capital
7. Euripides, Helen, 55, 138 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 138. τεθνᾶσι καὶ οὐ τεθνᾶσι: δύο δ' ἐστὸν λόγω. 138. They are dead, and not dead: it is a double story. Helen
8. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 181 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
9. Euripides, Hippolytus, 1039-1040, 486-489, 503, 925-931, 986-991, 1038 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1038. A wizard or magician must the fellow be, to think he can first flout me, his father
10. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1116, 1115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
11. Euripides, Medea, 526, 576-583, 522 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 522. Needs must I now, it seems, turn orator, and, like a good helmsman on a ship with close-reefed sails, weather
12. Euripides, Orestes, 545-550, 907-908, 544 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 544. Old man, I am afraid to speak before you
13. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 470-472, 499-503, 524-525, 531-540, 588, 469 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 469. The words of truth are naturally simple
14. Euripides, Rhesus, 639 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 639. And soft shall be my words to him I hate.
15. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 195-199, 203-204, 297-300, 403, 415-416, 426-428, 1064 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1064. What dost thou say? What is this silly riddle thou propoundest? Evadne
16. Euripides, Trojan Women, 968, 967 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
17. Plato, Apology of Socrates, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 17b. because I was a clever speaker. For I thought it the most shameless part of their conduct that they are not ashamed because they will immediately be convicted by me of falsehood by the evidence of fact, when I show myself to be not in the least a clever speaker, unless indeed they call him a clever speaker who speaks the truth; for if this is what they mean, I would agree that I am an orator—not after their fashion. Now they, as I say, have said little or nothing true; but you shall hear from me nothing but the truth. Not, however, men of Athens, speeches finely tricked out with words and phrases
18. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.67.6 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 3.67.6. Vindicate, therefore, Lacedaemonians, the Hellenic law which they have broken; and to us, the victims of its violation, grant the reward merited by our zeal. Nor let us be supplanted in your favour by their harangues, but offer an example to the Hellenes, that the contests to which you invite them are of deeds, not words: good deeds can be shortly stated, but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.
19. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 4.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
agon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
agôn/-es	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 580, 600
alexandros	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
anaxagoras	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 16
andromache	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
antiope	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
antiphon, anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
antiphon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
athens	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 16
attic law	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
captatio benevolentiae	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
deception, and tragedy	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
deception, association with rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
democracy and monarchy, debate between theseus and theban herald on	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21
dik, h.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
diodotus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 600
dissoi logoi	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21, 32
doxa (seeming, opinion, reputation)	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
duchemin, j.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
eidôla, as prologues	Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
eidôla, in tragedy	Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
eidôla	Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
enlightenment, politics and	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 146
euripides, andromache, doxa in	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, andromache	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, eidôla	Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
euripides, gorgianic elements in	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, hecuba	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, hecubas rhetoric in	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on (im)materiality of lies	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on doxa and deception	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on lie-detection	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on rhetoric of anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on spartans	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
exordium	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
gnômê	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
gorgias, and euripides	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, encomium of helen	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, his definition of doxa	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, role within fifth-century enlightenment	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, theory of apate	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
hecuba (hecabe)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 16, 177, 580
hyperbaton	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
isocrates	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
justice	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 32
language, polyneices on truth and justice, in phoenician women	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 32
language, rhetoric	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21, 32, 33, 146
lloyd, m.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
logos	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 600
mastronarde, d. j.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
materiality, in euripides, of discourse	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
materiality, in euripides	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
medea, rhetoric and sophia in	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21
menelaus	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
monarchy and democracy, debate between theseus and theban herald on	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21
muses	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 33
oratory	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
osullivan, p.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 580, 600
palamedes	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
pericles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 600
persuasion ( peitho )	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
phoenician women	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 32
priam	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
protagoras	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21, 32
prothesis	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
rhetoric, of anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
rhetoric	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 580, 600; Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21, 32, 33, 146
rhetorical aporia	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
rohde, e.	Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
slander	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
socrates	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 33
sophia, wisdom ambivalence of	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 146
sophia, wisdom rhetoric and	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21, 32, 33
sophia, wisdom truth contrasted with justice	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 32
sophism expansion of professions and	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 33
sophism of teiresias in bacchae	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 146
sophism polyneices on truth and justice in phoenician women and	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 32
speaker	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89, 90
sunesis'	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 146
suppliant women on rhetoric	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21
suppliant women theban herald, debate on democracy and monarchy between theseus and	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 21
thucydides	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 600
topos	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
trial–debate	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 90
tyrrell, w.b.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 16
tzanetou, a.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 177