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Euripides, Cyclops (ed. David Kovacs), line 316 (search)
o I know any respect in which he is my superior as a god. My suppletion. I am not concerned about him henceforth. How it is that I am not concerned you may hear. When Zeus sends his rain from above, taking my water-tight shelter in this cave and dining on roasted calf or some wild beast, I put on a feast for my upturned belly, then drinking dry a whole storage-vat of milk, I drum on it, making a din to rival Zeus's thunder. And when the north wind out of Thrace pours snow on us, I wrap my body in the skins of beasts, pile up a great blazing fire, and pay no heed to the snow. The Earth brings forth grass willy-nilly to feed my flock. These I sacrifice to no one but myself—never to the gods— and to my belly, the greatest of divinities. To guzzle and eat day by day and to give oneself no pain—this is Zeus in the eyes of men of sense. As for those who have passed laws and complicated men's lives, they can go hang. For my part, I shall not forgo givi<