O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness.

Euripides. "Orestes." Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Euripides. Ὀρέστης [Orestes]. 408 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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