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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides

“No, not in blood. In love we are brothers sworn.”

Euripides (spoken by Orestes)

The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Tauris, questioning of the strangers, trans. Gilbert Murray (1910)

Portrait of Euripides

Iphigenia asks whether the two captives are brothers; Orestes, hiding his name, describes his friendship with Pylades.

Citation: "No, not in blood. In love we are brothers sworn." — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Tauris, questioning of the strangers, trans. Gilbert Murray (1910). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q5)

Virtues: Friendship

Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.

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