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A woman's vows I write upon the wave. — Sophocles

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A woman's vows I write upon the wave.

Sophocles
Unknown drama · 400 BC
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400 BCClassical antiquity
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Sophocles. Unnamed drama. 5th century BC, fragment 694.

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