“It is not shameful to proclaim even a lie publicly to save a life.”
οὐ νέμεσις καὶ ψεῦδος ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς ἀγορεύειν.
Peisander, you ask? Not the Spartan general or the Severan era poet.
(An epic poet, perhaps?)
Peisander, fr. 8 (Stobaeus 3.12.6)
“It is not shameful to proclaim even a lie publicly to save a life.”
οὐ νέμεσις καὶ ψεῦδος ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς ἀγορεύειν.
Peisander, you ask? Not the Spartan general or the Severan era poet.
(An epic poet, perhaps?)