“There is no life which has not its own ills,
Pains, cares, thefts, and anxieties, disease;
And Death, as a physician, coming, gives
Rest to their victims in his quiet sleep.”[937]
Furthermore, Euripides having said:
“Many are fortune’s shapes,
And many things contrary to expectation the gods perform,”—
The tragic poet Theodectes similarly writes:
“The instability of mortals’ fates.”
And Bacchylides having said: