Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
Words are healers of the sick tempered.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.