Quel fut le crime de Prométhée ? […] Ce crime affreux ne rendit pas à Jason ses Etats. […] Quels étaient les crimes de chacun de ces brigands ? […] Quel était le crime d’Andromède ? […] Quel crime commit Oreste ?

“Thy godlike crime was to be kind,     To render with thy precepts less     The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind.” […] Now, Jupiter had malignantly crammed into this box all the diseases, sorrows, vices, and crimes that afflict poor humanity; and the box was no sooner opened, than all these ills flew out, in the guise of horrid little brown-winged creatures, closely resembling moths. […] To obey such a command seemed sacrilegious in the extreme; for the dead had always been held in deep veneration by the Greeks, and the desecration of a grave was considered a heinous crime, and punished accordingly. […] This was true, and the two murderers forthwith confessed, and were shortly afterwards executed for their crime. […] Then only he recovered his senses, and suffered agonies of sorrow and remorse for the terrible crimes he had unwittingly committed.