For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
The laws of a state change with the changing times.
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.