Plato, Letters, Letter 1, section 309d

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[309d] Indeed, I may appropriately quote the verse of Euripides—that one day, when other fortunes befall you,“Thou'lt pray for such a helper by thy side.
”Eur. Fr. 956 (Nauck)

And I desire to remind you that most of the other tragedians also, when they show a tyrant on the stage slaughtered by someone, represent him as crying out—

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 7 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.

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