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Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις], c. l. 415 [Chorus] (438 BC) [tr. Leuschnig] - Euripides | WIST Quotations
You are neither the first nor the last of mortals to lose a good wife. You have to learn that death is a debt we all must pay. [οὐ γάρ τι πρῶτος οὐδὲ λοίσθιος βροτῶν γυναικὸς ἐσθλῆς ἤμπλακες· γίγνωσκε δὲ ὡς πᾶσιν ἡμῖν κατθανεῖν ὀφείλεται.] Alt. trans.: Thou art by…