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perpetrator
in
Medea, by Euripides - (translated by: T.A. Buckley)
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But how, having darted thine eyes upon thy children, wilt thou endure the perpetration of the murder without tears?†
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perpetration = something done that was wrong or illegal
do not thou then, my soul, do not thou at least perpetrate this.†

perpetrate = to do something wrong or illegal
[At all events they must die, and since they must, I who brought them into the world will perpetrate the deed.†
O thou, that hast impiously perpetrated a deed of terror, Medea, fly, fly, leaving neither the ocean chariot,[35] nor the car whirling o'er the plain.†

perpetrated = done (something wrong or illegal)
But I came to preserve my children's life, lest [Creon's] relations by birth do any injury,[42] avenging the impious murder perpetrated by their mother.†

Definitions:

(1) (perpetrator)
someone who has does something wrong -- usually something illegal
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)