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With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.231
With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.