Each good thing has its nature legitimate.”
[929] As no play bearing this name is mentioned by any one else, various conjectures have been made as to the true reading; among which are Clymene Temenos or Temenides.
[930] Odyssey, xiv. 187.
[931] In Theognis the quotation stands thus:
Οἶνον τοι πίνειν πουλὸν κακόν, ἢν δέ τις αὐτὸν
Πίνῃ ἐπισταμένως, oὐ κακὸς ἀλλ’ ἀγαθός.
“To drink much wine is bad; but if one drink
It with discretion, ’tis not bad, but good.”
[932] From Jupiter’s address (referring to Pandora) to Prometheus, after stealing fire from heaven. The passage in Hesiod runs thus:
“You rejoice at stealing fire and outwitting my mind;