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Within one cup pour vinegar and oil,
And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war. (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

— Aeschylus Oresteia (-458)

ὄξος τ' ἄλειφά τ' ἐγχέας ταὐτῷ κύτει
διχοστατοῦντ' ἂν οὐ φίλως προσεννέποις.

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