O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness.

ὦ φίλον ὕπνου θέλγητρον, ἐπίκουρον νόσου

Euripides

Orestes

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Sleep

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Orestes

Author

Euripides

Source

Orestes

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

408 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Playwright Writer

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Greece Europe

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Original Citation

Euripides. Ὀρέστης [Orestes]. 408 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Orestes." Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Early to Bed and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy and wise.

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Time
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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1735.

Current Citation

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Current Citation

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Socrates

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Socrates

Author

Plato
Source
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Medium
Philosophical dialogue Dialogue
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
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Time
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Era
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Current Citation

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Author

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Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

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