Keep within bounds a moment,—eye and lip

Shall loose their doom on me, their fiery worst!)

What strangers? Archelaos heads the file!

He sympathizes, he concerns himself,

He pens epistle, each successless play:

'Athenai sinks effete; there 's younger blood

In Makedonia. Visit where I rule!

Do honor to me and take gratitude!

Live the guest's life, or work the poet's way,

Which also means the statesman's: he who wrote