This only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone.

μόνου γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ θεὸς στερίσκεται,
ἀγένητα ποιεῖν ἅσσ᾿ ἂν ᾖ πεπραγμένα.

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Not even the gods can change the past.

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