[Sócrates, dirigindo-se a Antístenes, a propósito da tirania dos Trinta] Do you regret at all that we've become nothing serious or worthy of respect like those monarchs we see in tragedy, those figures of Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, and Aegisthus? Those are revealed each time being slaughtered, decked out in tragic pomp, dining on unholy food — but no poet of tragedy has become so daring and shameless so as to introduce into his drama the slaughter of a choros.
["μή τί σοι μεταμέλει ὅτι μέγα καὶ σεμνὸν οὐδὲν ἐγενόμεθα ἐν τῷ βίῳ καὶ τοιοῦτοι οἵους ἐν τῇ τραγῳδίᾳ τοὺς μονάρχους ὁρῶμεν, Ἀτρέας τε ἐκείνους καὶ Θυέστας καὶ Ἀγαμέμνονας καὶ Αἰγίσθους; οὗτοι μὲν γὰρ ἀποσφαττόμενοι καὶ ἐκτραγῳδούμενοι καὶ πονηρὰ δεῖπνα δειπνοῦντες [καὶ ἐσθίοντες] ἑκάστοτε ἐκκαλύπτονται˙ οὐδεὶς δὲ οὕτως ἐγένετο τολμηρὸς οὐδὲ ἀναίσχυντος τραγῳδίας ποιητής, ὥστε ἐσαγαγεῖν ἐς δρᾶμα ἀποσφαττόμενον χορόν."]
trad.: Brian Hook in (2005), 'Oedipus and Thyestes among the Philosophers',
Classical Philology 100: 27, n. 42.
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