Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
And woe succeeds woe.
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.