“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,