He also, altering, has given forth thus:
“I will do it.
”For Mars to men in truth is even-handed.”[917]
Also, translating the following:
“The issues of victory among men depend on the gods,”[919]
he openly encourages youth, in the following iambic:
“Victory’s issues on the gods depend.”
Again, Homer having said:
“With feet unwashed sleeping on the ground,”[920]
Euripides writes in Erechtheus: