Aeschylus saying after him:—
Nor receiving many wounds in his heart does any one die,
unless the goal of life is run. Nor does any one sitting by
the hearth flee any better the decreed fate.
In prose, Demosthenes speaks as follows (O. xviii. 9):—
For all mortals, death is the end of life even if one keeps
himself shut up in a cell; it is necessary ever for good men
to attempt noble things and bravely to bear whatever God
may give.
Again take Homer (I. iii. 65):—
The gifts of Heav'n are not to be despis'd.
Sophocles paraphrases this, saying:—
This is God's gift; whatever the gods may give, one must never
avoid anything, my son.
In Homer there are the words (I. i. 249):—
From whose persuasive lips. Sweeter than
Honey flowed the stream of speech.