[26.] For first he “thinks that he should remind the congress that in war sleepers are woke at dawn by bugles, in peace by cocks.”[42] Then he says that “Hercules established the Olympic games and the sacred truce during them, as an exemplification of his own principles;” and that “he had injured all those persons against whom he waged war, under compulsion and in obedience to the order of another, but was never voluntarily the author of harm to any man.”[43] Next he quotes the instance of Zeus in Homer as being displeased with Ares, and saying[44]—
“Of all the gods that on Olympus dwell
I hold thee most detested; for thy joy
Is ever strife and war and battle.”
And again the wisest of the heroes says[45]—
“He is a wretch, insensible and dead
To all the charities of social life,
Whose pleasure is in civil broil and war.”
Then he goes on to allege that Euripides agrees with Homer in the lines[46]—