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Rh Since of the many-slayers—not

Unwatching are the gods.

The black Erinues, at due periods—

Whoever gains the lot

Of fortune with no right—

Him, by life's strain and stress

Back-again-beaten from success,

They strike blind: and among the out-of-sight

For who has got to be, avails no might.

The being praised outrageously

Is grave, for at the eyes of such an one

Is launched, from Zeus, the thunder-stone.

Therefore do I decide

For so much and no more prosperity

Than of his envy passes unespied.