“Far from the poor flies every friend.”
And Epicharmus, saying:
“Daughter, woe worth the day!
Thee who art old I marry to a youth;”[922]
and adding:
“For the young husband takes some other girl,
And for another husband longs the wife,”—
Euripides[923] writes:
“’Tis bad to yoke an old wife to a youth;
For he desires to share another’s bed,