Xenophon[940] says, “For I seem to myself to have acted in like manner, as if one who killed the father should spare his children.” And Sophocles having written in the Antigone:
“Mother and father being in Hades now,
No brother ever can to me spring forth,”—
Herodotus says, “Mother and father being no more, I shall not have another brother.” In addition to these, Theopompus having written:
“Twice children are old men in very truth;”
And before him Sophocles in Peleus:
“Peleus, the son of Æacus, I, sole housekeeper,
Guide, old as he is now, and train again,
For the aged man is once again a child,”—
Antipho the orator says, “For the nursing of the old is like the nursing of children.” Also the philosopher Plato says, “The old man then, as seems, will be twice a child.” Further, Thucydides having said, “We alone bore the brunt at Marathon,”[941]—Demosthenes said, “By those who bore the brunt at Marathon.” Nor will I omit the following. Cratinus having said in the Pytine:[942]