A Sick City

Euripides, Heracles 272-274 (thou, thee = Lycus; tr. Edward P. Coleridge): For a city sick with dissension and evil counsels thinketh not aright; otherwise it would never have accepted thee as its master. οὐ γὰρ εὖ φρονεῖ πόλις στάσει νοσοῦσα καὶ κακοῖς βουλεύμασιν· οὐ γάρ ποτ' ἂν σὲ δεσπότην ἐκτήσατο.