Which, rather than renounce, our pair would die—
That ever one faint particle came true,
With both alive to bring it to effect:
Such is the envy Gods still bear mankind!
So might our version of the story prove,
And no Euripidean pathos plague
Too much my critic-friend of Syracuse.
"Besides your poem failed to get the prize:
(That is, the first prize: second prize is none.)
Sophokles got it!" Honor the great name!