Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
2083
AUTHOR:
Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
QUOTATION:
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
ATTRIBUTION:
AESCHYLUS.—John Lewin, The House of Atreus, p. 110 (1966). This modern version is an adaptation of the Oresteia; the lines above are from Eumenides (The Furies).
Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest, July 15, 1970.—Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 24309.
