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nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my ancestors concerning the keeping of the law,
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not even if you gouge out my eyes and burn my entrails.
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I am not so old and cowardly as not to be young in reason on behalf of piety.
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Therefore get your torture wheels ready and fan the fire more vehemently!
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I do not so pity my old age as to break the ancestral law by my own act.
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I will not play false to you, O law that trained me, nor will I renounce you, beloved self-control.
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I will not put you to shame, philosophical reason, nor will I reject you, honored priesthood and knowledge of the law.
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You, O king, shall not stain the honorable mouth of my old age, nor my long life lived lawfully.
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The fathers will receive me as pure, as one who does not fear your violence even to death.
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You may tyrannize the ungodly, but you shall not dominate my religious principles either by word or by deed."