Note 40 — Chapter XV · THE FRAGMENTS OF ÆSCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, AND EURIPIDES.
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He was my friend; and may love lead me never Aside to folly or to sensual joy! Surely there is another sort of love For a soul, just, well-tempered, strong, and good. And there should be this law for mortal men, To love the pure and temperate, and to leave Kupris, the daughter of high Zeus, alone.
We find a witty contradiction to the sentiment of these lines in a fragment of Amphis [Dithyrambus, fr. 2]:
τί φῄς; σὺ ταυτὶ προσδοκᾷς πείσειν ἔμ' ὡς ἔρως τις ἐστὶν ὅστις ὡραῖον φιλῶν τρόπων ἐραστής ἐστι τὴν ὄψιν παρείς; ἄφρων γ' ἀληθῶς.