“Dire need and baneful paunch me overcome;

From which all evils come.”

Besides, Callias the comic poet having written:

“With madmen, all men must be mad, they say,”—

Menander, in the Poloumenoi, expresses himself similarly, saying:

“The presence of wisdom is not always suitable:

One sometimes must with others play[935] the fool.”

And Antimachus of Teos having said:

“From gifts, to mortals many ills arise,”—

Augias composed the line: