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Again, Theognis having said:

Euripides has written:

And Epicharmus, saying:

and adding:

Euripides writes:

Euripides having, besides, said in the Medea:

Sophocles in Ajax Flagellifer utters this iambic:

Solon having written:

Theognis writes in the same way:

Whence also Thucydides, in the Histories, says: "Many men, to whom in a great degree, and in a short time, unlooked-for prosperity comes, are wont to turn to insolence." And Philistus likewise imitates the same sentiment, expressing himself thus: "And the many things which turn out prosperously to men, in accordance with reason, have an