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other fishes come fraught with destruction to one 

 another ; wherefore also thou shalt never see fishes 

 sleeping ° but evermore awake and sleepless are their 

 eyes and wits, since always they dread the encounter 

 of a stronger and slay the weaker. Only the tender 

 Parrot-wrasse,'' as fishermen say, never falls into their 

 nets in the darkness but doubtless sleeps " by night 

 in the hollow ocean caves. 



Yet it is no marvel that Justice should dwell apart 

 from the sea. For not long since that first of god- 

 desses had no throne even among men, but noisy riots 

 and raging ruin of destroying Wars and Strife, giver 

 of pain, nurse of tearful wars, consumed the unhappy 

 race of the creatures of a day. Nor different at all 

 from wild beasts were many among men ; but, more 

 terrible than Lions, well-builded towers and halls and 

 fragrant temples of the deathless gods they clothed 

 with the blood of men and dark smoke of Hephaestus: 

 until the Son of Cronus took pity on the afflicted race 

 and bestowed upon you, the Sons of Aeneas, the 

 earth for keeping. Yet even among the earlier kings 

 of the Ausonians War still raged, arming Celts and 

 proud Iberians and the great space ** of Libya and the 

 lands of the Rhine « and Ister and Euphrates. Where- 

 fore need I mention those works of the spear ? For 

 now, O Justice, nurse of cities, I know thee to share 

 the hearth and home of men, ever since they hold 

 sway together, mounted on their mighty throne — the 



' Athen. 330 a 2^\ei'/coj 5' 6 Tafxrei/s ev tQ 'AXievriKi^ 

 /X3V0V tprjcrl tQiv iydvusv top CKapov KadevdfiV 80€V oi/d^ virKTup 

 iroTi aXQyyai. touto 5' tffws dia, (piSov aiT<jj ffv/x^aivei. 



'' For use of ropov cf. Dion. P. 331 EypcuTr?;? Xotiroi' irbpov. 



' For periphrasis cf. H. i. 103 ipya t 6vl<TK0}v\'Ti\on.\^. 

 916 WoffiS-qia fpya. 



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