Meditations VII.42

For justice and good luck shall bide with me.⁵⁵

• 55.Namely, σύμμαχον ἔσται, Euripides, Fragment 910. Twice quoted by Cicero (Letters to Atticus vi. 1, § 8; viii. 8, § 2). Compare Aristophanes’ Acharnians 661.

  Symmachon estai, “will be an ally.” Cicero’s Letters to Atticus are his correspondence with his friend Titus Pomponius Atticus. Aristophanes was a poet of Athenian Old Comedy, and the Acharnians is one of his plays.