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Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1280-4

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On the march he had no diminution of his force, save a slight loss due to sickness, but an increase: P. πορευομένῳ δὲ αὐτῷ ἀπεγίγνετο μὲν οὐδέν τοῦ στρατοῦ εἰ μή τι νόσῳ, προσεγίγνετο δέ (Thuc. 2, 98).