Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, line 811

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May Maia's son,¹ as he rightfully should, lend his aid, for no one can better sail a deed on a favoring course, when he would do so.² [815] But by his mysterious utterance he brings darkness over men's eyes by night, and by day he is no more clear at all.

1 Hermes, the patron of guile and god of eloquence.

2 The bracketed line 815 reads “And many another hidden thing he will make plain, if he desires.”

Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Libation Bearers. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.

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