"He ought at home to stay, and free remain,
Or be no longer rightly happy."
Again, Theognis having said:
"The exile has no comrade dear and true,"—
Euripides has written:
"Far from the poor flies every friend."
And Epicharmus, saying:
"Daughter, woe worth the day!
Thee who art old I marry to a youth;"[1]
and adding:
"For the young husband takes some other girl,
And for another husband longs the wife,"—
Euripides[2] writes:
"'Tis bad to yoke an old wife to a youth;
For he desires to share another's bed,
And she, by him deserted, mischief plots."
Euripides having, besides, said in the Medea:
"For no good do a bad man's gifts,"—
Sophocles in Ajax Flagellifer utters this iambic:
"For foes' gifts are no gifts, nor any boon."[3]
Solon having written:
"For surfeit insolence begets,
When store of wealth attends."
Theognis writes in the same way:
"For surfeit insolence begets,
When store of wealth attends the bad."
Whence also Thucydides, in the Histories, says: "Many men, to whom in a great degree, and in a short time, unlooked-for prosperity comes, are wont to turn to insolence." And Philistus[4] likewise imitates the same sentiment, expressing himself thus: "And the many things which turn out prosperously to men, in accordance with reason, have an in-
