Art is true friend of chance, and chance of art.

[88] Even as saith also Agathon:

Worsted by suffering cowards dote on death.

[89] I have followed Grotius in transposing τύχῃ and τέχνῃ, and translate:

Thus some things we can do by art, while some
Are thrust on us as fate and fortune will.

[90] Fab. 172.

[91] Varia Historia, ii. 30. Compare Diog. Laert. iii. 80.

[92] Frere's Translation, p. 229.

[93] Poet. cap. 17; Rhet. ii. 23, iii. 16.