For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.