It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
The laws of a state change with the changing times.