Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those… — Euripides
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild. Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child.
In the original Greek
Ἔρως Ἔρως, ὁ κατ᾽ ὀμμάτων στάζων πόθον, εἰσάγων γλυκεῖαν ψυχᾷ χάριν οὓς ἐπιστρατεύσῃ, μή μοί ποτε σὺν κακῷ φανείης μηδ᾽ ἄρρυθμος ἔλθοις. οὔτε γὰρ πυρὸς οὔτ᾽ ἄστρων ὑπέρτερον βέλος, οἷον τὸ τᾶς Ἀφροδίτας ἵησιν ἐκ χερῶν Ἔρως ὁ Διὸς παῖς.
Hippolytus · 428 BC
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Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Original citation
Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.
