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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides
“But when the laws are written down, rich and poor alike have equal justice, and it is open to the weaker to use the same language to the prosperous when he is reviled by him, and the weaker prevails over the stronger if he have justice on his side.”
Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, The Suppliants, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)
Theseus answers the Theban herald's praise of one-man rule with a defense of Athenian law.
Citation: "But when the laws are written down, rich and poor alike have equal justice, and it is open to the weaker to use the same language to the prosperous when he is reviled by him, and the weaker prevails over the stronger if he have justice on his side." — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, The Suppliants, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q3)
Virtues: Justice
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
