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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8461 Aeshylus 525-456 BC John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8461
AUTHOR:Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
QUOTATION:O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.
ATTRIBUTION:Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre).