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Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 5)

Note 123 — HOW A MAN MAY RECEIVE ADVANTAGE AND PROFIT FROM HIS ENEMIES.

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Τράγος γένειον ἆρα πενθήσεις σύ γε, Thou goat, soon thou shalt bewail the loss of thy beard. This verse is supposed to belong to the Satyrdrama Prometheus of Aeschylus, which was exhibited with the trilogy to which the Persians belong. The whole tetralogy, according to the didascalia, consisted of the Phineus, Persians, Glaucus, and Prometheus. (G.)

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