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At the risk of being pedantic (and without going back to check the primary souces cited inte the quote-books):
Barlett's (13th ed.): "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of their senses." Euripedes [keiva's note: a mis-translation? "God" rather than "the gods"?]
Footnote to the above states that in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson (1971), "this is quoted as a saying which everybody repeats, but nobody knows where to find." Also provides quotes similar quotes from Publilius Syrus, Lycurgus, Dryden, and Longfellow.
Evans' Dictionary of Quotations: "Whom Zeus would destoy, he first makes mad. [Sophocles: Antigone (c. 450 B.C.)] The statement, which may well have been proverbial when Sophocles used it, has passed though its Latin version into almost every European language."
I always read this in the same sense as Dr. Bill: hubris.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted question ChuckL 09/01/01 01:08 AM Max Quordlepleen 09/01/01 01:21 AM there's nothing new under the sun II tsuwm 09/01/01 01:25 AM Re: there's nothing new under the sun II wwh 09/01/01 12:54 PM Re: there's nothing new under the sun II Keiva 09/01/01 01:51 PM Re: there's nothing new under the sun II jmh 09/03/01 08:43 AM Re: Lycurgus plus Edit #1 & #2 wow 09/03/01 01:00 PM
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