WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/euripides/78063/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Euripides</b></a></p><blockquote>MENELAUS: But so it has to be.<br> For the saying is not mine, but it was wisely said,<br> that nothing has more strength than dire necessity.<br> <br>[ΜΕΝΕΛΈΩΣ: ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκαίως ἔχει.<br> λόγος γάρ ἐστιν οὐκ ἐμός, σοφὸν δ᾽ ἔπος,<br> δεινῆς ἀνάγκης οὐδὲν ἰσχύειν πλέον.]</blockquote><p><b>Euripides</b> (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist<br><i>Helen [Ἑλένη],</i> l. 512ff (412 BC) [tr. Lattimore (1956)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/euripides/78063/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/euripides/78063/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=euripides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>euripides</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=helen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>helen</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=compulsion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compulsion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=constraint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>constraint</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fate</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=necessity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>necessity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=needful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>needful</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=requirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>requirement</span></a></p>