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I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.

— Aeschylus

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again." in the context of "trans. Gilbert Murray" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Aeschylus

Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.