Being conscious to thyself of nought amiss,
Good sir, for thee God ever present sees.”[874]
“Whilst thou art yet speaking,” says the Scripture, “I will say, Lo, here I am.”[875]
Again Diphilus, the comic poet, discourses as follows on the judgment:
“Think’st thou, O Niceratus, that the dead,
Who in all kinds of luxury in life have shared,
Escape the Deity, as if forgot.
There is an eye of justice, which sees all.
For two ways, as we deem, to Hades lead—
One for the good, the other for the bad.