“Besides, conceal thou nought; since Time,
That sees all, hears all, all things will unfold.”
But let us similarly run over the following; for Eumelus having composed the line,
“Of Memory and Olympian Zeus the daughters nine,”
Solon thus begins the elegy:
“Of Memory and Olympian Zeus the children bright.”
Again, Euripides, paraphrasing the Homeric line:
“What, whence art thou? Thy city and thy parents, where?”[930]
employs the following iambics in Ægeus:
“What country shall we say that thou hast left