"Bastardy is opprobrious in name; but the nature is equal;" [3216]
And from the Aleuades of Sophocles:--
"Each good thing has its nature equal."
Again, in the Ctimenus [3217] of Euripides:--
"For him who toils, God helps;"
And in the Minos of Sophocles;
"To those who act not, fortune is no ally;"
And from the Alexander of Euripides:--
"But time will show; and learning, by that test,
I shall know whether thou art good or bad;"
[3216] The text has doie, which Stobaeus has changed into d' ise, as above. Stobaeus gives this quotation as follows:--
"The bastard has equal strength with the legitimate;
Each good thing has its nature legitimate."
[3217] As no play bearing this name is mentioned by any one else, various conjectures have been made as to the true reading; among which are Clymene Temenos or Temenides.
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