Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. ✨ Aeschylus (1868). The Tragedi…

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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. ✨ Aeschylus (1868). The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses, p.232
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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. ✨ Aeschylus (1868). The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses, p.232

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