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A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first,
a viper is not more hateful.

— Euripides Alcestis (-438)

ἐχθρὰ γὰρ ἡ ᾿πιοῦσα μητρυιὰ τέκνοις
τοῖς πρόσθ᾿, ἐχίδνης οὐδὲν ἠπιωτέρα.

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