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Yet there seem to be some acts which a man cannot be compelled to
do,1 and
rather than do them he ought to submit to the most terrible death: for instance, we think
it ridiculous that Alcmaeon in Euripides' play2 is compelled by certain threats to murder his mother!
1 i.e., some acts are so repulsive that a man's abhorrence of them must be stronger than any pressure that can be put on him to commit them; so that if he commits them he must be held to have chosen to do so.
2 In a play now lost, Eriphyle was bribed with a necklace to induce her husband Amphiaraus, king of Argos, to join the expedition of the Seven against Thebes. Foreseeing he would lose his life, he charged his sons to avenge his death upon their mother, invoking on them famine and childlessness if they disobeyed. The verse in question is preserved: μάλιστα μὲν μ᾽ ἐπῆρ᾽ ἐπισκήψας πατήρ. Alcmaeon, fr. 69 （Nauck）.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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