Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

The wisest of the wise may err.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.