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“So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 70bac899a3e45c82800dfd4203eb2d3b99bc9aabc4c4d76236d079d41535efc1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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