that is not proper or good for it, when it has scaled the topmost ramparts, is hurled to a dire doom, where one’s feet cannot serve to good advantage. But I pray that the god neverquell such rivalry as benefits the state. I will always hold the god as our protector.

ChorusBut if any man walks haughtily in deed or word,with no fear of Justice, no reverence for the images of gods, may an evil doom seize him for his ill-starred pride, if he does not gain his advantage fairly,