And from the Aleuades of Sophocies:
"Each good thing has its nature equal."
Again, in the Ctimenus[1] of Euripides:
"For him who toils, God helps;"
And in the Minos of Sophocles:
"To those who act not, fortune is no ally;"
And from the Alexander of Euripides:
"But time will show; and learning, by that test,
I shall know whether thou art good or bad;"
And from the Hipponos of Sophocles:
"Besides, conceal thou nought; since Time,
That sees all, hears all, all things will unfold."
But let us similarly run over the following; for Eumelus having composed the line,
"Of Memory and Olympian Zeus the daughters nine,"
Solon thus begins the elegy:
"Of Memory and Olympian Zeus the children bright."
Again, Euripides, paraphrasing the Homeric line:
"What, whence art thou? Thy city and thy parents, where?"[2]
employs the following iambics in Ægeus:
"What country shall we say that thou hast left
To roam in exile, what thy land—the bound
Of thine own native soil? Who thee begat?
And of what father dost thou call thyself the son?"
And what? Theognis[3] having said:
"Wine largely drunk is bad; but if one use
It with discretion, 'tis not bad, but good,"—
does not Panyasis write?
"Above the gods' best gift to men ranks wine,
In measure drunk; but in excess the worst."
- ↑ As no play bearing this name is mentioned by any one else, various conjectures have been made as to the true reading; among which are Clymene Temenos or Temenides.
- ↑ Odyssey, xiv. 187.
- ↑ In Theognis the quotation stands thus:
Οἶον τοι πίνειν τουλὸν κακόν, ἤν δέ τις αὐτὸν
Πίνῃ ἐπισταμένος, οὐ κακὸς ἀλλ' ἀγαθόσ.
"To drink much wine is bad; but if one drink
It with discretion, 'tis not bad, but good."
