“It is not noble at dead men to sneer;”

and Cratinus in the Lacones:

“For men ’tis dreadful to exult

Much o’er the stalwart dead.”

Again, Archilochus, transferring that Homeric line:

“I erred, nor say I nay, instead of many,”[916]

writes thus:

“I erred, and this mischief hath somehow seized another.”

As certainly also that line:

“Even-handed[917] war the slayer slays.”[918]