A quotation from Euripides

HECUBA: For from darkness and the endearments of the night mortals have their keenest joys.
 
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἐκ τοῦ σκότου τε τῶν τε νυκτερησίων
φίλτρων μεγίστη γίγνεται βροτοῖς χάρις.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 831ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Coleridge (1938)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/76380/

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