Sophocles Quotations
Acrisius
"A lie never lives to be old." Acrisius. Frg. 59.
"Nobody loves life like an old man." Frg. 63.
BIOGRAPHY:
Sophocles was born in Colonus in c. 496 B.C. and died 406/5 B.C. For more information on Sophocles and his contributions to tragedy, see Sophocles Feature.
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MORE QUOTES:
• From Other Plays by Sophocles
• Biblical
• Aeschylus
• Euripides
