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). |