...d these doings? How can I praise them, when in the very act of praising the ways of the gods, I find that the gods are evil? I, at least, son of Oetean Poeas, will be on my guard hereafter against Ilium and the Atreids, and look on them only from afar. And where the worse man is stronger than the good, where nobility goes to ruin and the vile man dominates—among such men I will never make my ...