” This topic is also commonly employed in praising the gods.
Conon used to
call Thrasybulus “the man bold in counsel,” and Herodicus
said of Thrasymachus, “Thou art ever bold in fight,” and of
Polus, “Thou art ever Polus （colt） by name and colt
by nature,”2 and of Draco the legislator that his laws were not those of a man, but of
a dragon, so severe were they. Hecuba in Euripides3 speaks
thus of Aphro-dite: “
And rightly does the name of the goddess begin like the word
aphro-syne （folly）;
” and Chaeremon4 of Pentheus, “
Pentheus named after his unhappy future.
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