WIST QuotationsCHORUS: I say that mortals who have no experience
Of and have never had children
Have a better chance for happiness
Than those who bear them.
ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: καί φημι βροτῶν οἵτινές εἰσιν
πάμπαν ἄπειροι μηδ᾿ ἐφύτευσαν
παῖδας προφέρειν εἰς εὐτυχίαν
τῶν γειναμένων.
Of and have never had children
Have a better chance for happiness
Than those who bear them.
ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: καί φημι βροτῶν οἵτινές εἰσιν
πάμπαν ἄπειροι μηδ᾿ ἐφύτευσαν
παῖδας προφέρειν εἰς εὐτυχίαν
τῶν γειναμένων.
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1090ff (431 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84588/
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Euripides - Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1090ff (431 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)] | WIST Quotations
CHORUS: I say that mortals who have no experience Of and have never had children Have a better chance for happiness Than those who bear them. ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: καί φημι βροτῶν οἵτινές εἰσιν πάμπαν ἄπειροι μηδ᾿ ἐφύτευσαν παῖδας προφέρειν εἰς εὐτυχίαν τῶν γειναμένων. By missing out on the burden of how…