[692] The less these problems are adapted for rational solution, the more nobly do they present themselves in the language of a great poem; see as a specimen, Euripidês, Fragment. 101, ed. Dindorf.
Ὄλβιος ὅστις τῆς ἱστορίας
Ἔσχε μάθησιν, μήτε πολιτῶν
Ἐπὶ πημοσύνῃ, μήτ᾽ εἰς ἀδίκους
Πράξεις ὁρμῶν·
Ἀλλ᾽ ἀθανάτου καθορῶν φύσεως
Κόσμον ἀγήρω, πῆ τε συνέστη
Καὶ ὅπη καὶ ὅπως.
Τοῖς δὲ τοιούτοις οὐδέποτ᾽ αἰσχρῶν
Ἔργων μελέτημα προσίζει.