Aeschylus525–456 BCIt is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Fragment 394 (222 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).- Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 592
Aeschylus525–456 BCIt is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.