“O friend, if in this war, by taking flight, We should from age and death exemption win, I would not fight among the first myself, Nor would I send thee to the glorious fray; But now--for myriad fates of death attend In any case, which man may not escape Or shun--come on. To some one we shall bring Renown, or some one shall to us,”[943]-- Theopompus writes, “For if, by avoiding the present danger, we were to pass the rest of our time in security, to show love of life would not be wonderful. But now, so many fatalities are incident to life, that death in battle seems preferable.” And what? Chilo the sophist having uttered the apophthegm, “Become surety, and mischief is at hand,” did not Epicharmus utter the same sentiment in other terms, when he said, “Suretyship is the daughter of mischief, and loss that of suretyship?”[944] Further, Hippocrates the physician having written, “You must look to time, and locality, and age, and disease,” Euripides says in _Hexameters_:[945] “Those who the healing art would practise well, Must study people’s modes of life, and note The soil, and the diseases so consider.” Homer, again, having written: “I say no mortal man can doom escape,”-- Archinus says, “All men are bound to die either sooner or later;” and Demosthenes, “To all men death is the end of life, though one should keep himself shut up in a coop.” And Herodotus, again, having said, in his discourse about Glaucus the Spartan, that the Pythian said, “In the case of the Deity, to say and to do are equivalent,” Aristophanes said: “For to think and to do are equivalent.” And before him, Parmenides of Elea said: “For thinking and being are the same.” And Plato having said, “And we shall show, not absurdly perhaps, that the beginning of love is sight; and hope diminishes the passion, memory nourishes it, and intercourse preserves it;” does not Philemon the comic poet write: “First all see, then admire; Then gaze, then come to hope; And thus arises love?” Further, Demosthenes having said, “For to all of us death is a debt,” and so forth, Phanocles writes in _Loves_, or _The Beautiful_: “But from the Fates’ unbroken thread escape Is none for those that feed on earth.” You will also find that Plato having said, “For the first sprout of each plant, having got a fair start, according to the virtue of its own nature, is most powerful in inducing the appropriate end;” the historian writes, “Further, it is not natural for one of the wild plants to become cultivated, after they have passed the earlier period of growth;” and the following of Empedocles: “For I already have been boy and girl, And bush, and bird, and mute fish in the sea,”-- Euripides transcribes in _Chrysippus_: “But nothing dies Of things that are; but being dissolved, One from the other, Shows another form.”