writes thus:
"I erred, and this mischief hath somehow seized another."
As certainly also that line:
He also, altering, has given forth thus:
"I will do it.
"For Mars to men in truth is even-handed."[1]
Also, translating the following:
"The issues of victory among men depend on the gods,"[3]
he openly encourages youth, in the following iambic:
"Victory's issues on the gods depend."
Again, Homer having said:
"With feet unwashed sleeping on the ground,"[4]
Euripides writes in Erechtheus:
"Upon the plain spread with no couch they sleep,
Nor in the streams of water lave their feet."
Archilochus having likewise said:
"But one with this and one with that
His heart delights,"—
in correspondence with the Homeric line:
"For one in these deeds, one in those delights,"[5]—
Euripides says in Œneus:
"But one in these ways, one in those, has more delight."
And I have heard Æschylus saying:
"He who is happy ought to stay at home;
There should he also stay, who speeds not well."
And Euripides, too, shouting the like on the stage:
"Happy the man who, prosperous, stays at home."
Menander, too, on comedy, saying:
