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I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.   Aeschylus

Source: AESCHYLUS.John Lewin, The House of Atreus, p. 110 . This modern version is an adaptation of the Oresteia; the lines above are from Eumenides .Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest, July 15, 1970.Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 24309. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Aeschylus (525 BC456 BC; Greek: ) was a playwright of ancient Greece. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

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