GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg001.perseus-eng2:468-470 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg001.perseus-eng2:468-470

And on many sides there are difficulties hard to wrestle with; for, like a flood, a multitude of ills bursts on me.It is a sea of ruin, fathomless and impassable, which I am launched upon, and nowhere is there a haven from distress. For should I not pay the debt due to you, the pollution you name is beyond all range of speech; yet if