Aeschylus, Agamemnon 381-4

“Riches are no defense for a man who has insolently trampled underfoot the altar of Justice until it disappeared.”

οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν ἔπαλξις
πλούτου πρὸς κόρον ἀνδρὶ
λακτίσαντι μέγαν Δίκας
βωμὸν εἰς ἀφάνειαν.

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