GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4:471a-479 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4:471a-479

For so much and no more prosperityThan of his envy passes unespied.Neither a city-sacker would I be,Nor life, myself by others captive, see. A swift report has gone our city through,From fire, the good-news messenger: if true,Who knows? Or is it not a god-sent lie?Who is so childish and deprived of sense