“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: