Our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to… — Sophocles
Our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.
In the original Greek
τὰ μὲν δὴ πόλεος ἀσφαλῶς θεοὶ πολλῷ σάλῳ σείσαντες ὤρθωσαν πάλιν.
Antigone · 442 BC
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Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.
Original citation
Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.