Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
945
AUTHOR:
Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
QUOTATION:
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.
ATTRIBUTION:
AESCHYLUS (?), “Fragments,” fragment 253.—Aeschylus, trans. Herbert W. Smyth, vol. 2, p. 513 (1926). These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
