Critias writes: “For I begin with a man’s origin: how far the best and strongest in body will he be, if his father exercises himself, and eats in a hardy way, and subjects his body to toilsome labour; and if the mother of the future child be strong in body, and give herself exercise.” Again, Homer having said of the Hephæstus-made shield: “Upon it earth and heaven and sea he made, And Ocean’s rivers’ mighty strength portrayed,”-- Pherecydes of Syros says: “Zas makes a cloak large and beautiful, and works on it earth and Ogenus, and the palace of Ogenus.” And Homer having said: “Shame, which greatly hurts a man or helps,”[927]-- Euripides writes in _Erechtheus_: “Of shame I find it hard to judge; ’Tis needed. ’Tis at times a great mischief.” Take, by way of parallel, such plagiarisms as the following, from those who flourished together, and were rivals of each other. From the _Orestes_ of Euripides: “Dear charm of sleep, aid in disease.” From the _Eriphyle_ of Sophocles: “Hie thee to sleep, healer of that disease.” And from the Antigone of Sophocles: “Bastardy is opprobrious in name; but the nature is equal;”[928] And from the _Aleuades_ of Sophocles: “Each good thing has its nature equal.” Again, in the _Ctimenus_[929] 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?”[930] ]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[931] 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.” Hesiod, too, saying: “But for the fire to thee I’ll give a plague,[932] For all men to delight themselves withal,”-- Euripides writes: “And for the fire Another fire greater and unconquerable, Sprung up in the shape of women.”[933] And in addition, Homer, saying: “There is no satiating the greedy paunch, Baneful, which many plagues has caused to men.”[934] Euripides says: