| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8459 |
| AUTHOR: | Aeschylus (525456 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, With our own feathers, not by others hands, Are we now smitten. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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