Tho’ Justice, ere she come, be late,
Conceal’d by the behests of fate,
She menaces each villain’s head
For whom th’ inevitable snare is spread.

[Δίκα τοι Δίκα χρόνιος ἀλλ᾽ὅµως
ἐπιπεσοῦσ᾽ἔλαθεν ἔλαβεν ὅταν ἴ[δ]ῃ
τιν᾽ἀσεβῆ βροτῶν.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Antiope [Αντιοπη], frag. 223 (Kannicht) [Chorus/ΧΟΡΟΣ] (c. 410 BC) [tr. Wodhall (1809)]
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(Source (Greek)). TGF frag. 224, Barnes frag. 31, Musgrave frag. 2. Alternate translation:

Dike, Dike dallies, but still takes and seizes
unawares when she sees him,
any impious mortals.
[tr. Will (2015)]


 
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