“God, who makes all mortals.”
And when he says,
“How little, being a man, dost thou expect
Wisdom for man? ’Tis hard for mortal mind
The counsels of the gods to scan; and thou
Wast of a mortal mother born,”
he drew the thought from the following: “Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who was His counsellor?”[888] Hesiod, too, agrees with what is said above, in what he writes:
“No prophet, sprung of men that dwell on earth,
Can know the mind of Ægis-bearing Zeus.”
Similarly, then, Solon the Athenian, in the Elegies, following Hesiod, writes: