Chorus Leader
Time has not yet laid low your proud spirit: it is in its youth, though your body is all gone. Why do you take on vain struggles that will do you harm
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but little good to our city? At your age you should fight down your impulse and leave impossible things alone. There is no way you will get back your youth again.
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Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
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