“Even-handed[917] war the slayer slays.”[918] He also, altering, has given forth thus: “I will do it. ”For Mars to men in truth is even-handed.”[917] Also, translating the following: “The issues of victory among men depend on the gods,”[919] 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,”[920] –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,”[921]-- Euripides says in _Æneus_: “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: “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;”[922] and adding: “For the young husband takes some other girl, And for another husband longs the wife,”-- Euripides[923] 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.”[924] 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[925] likewise imitates the same sentiment, expressing himself thus: “And the many things which turn out prosperously to men, in accordance with reason, have an incredibly dangerous[926] tendency to misfortune. For those who meet with unlooked success beyond their expectations, are for the most part wont to turn to insolence.” Again, Euripides having written: “For children sprung of parents who have led A hard and toilsome life, superior are;”