“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: