40. Life must be reaped like the ripe ears of corn.
One man is born; another dies.[C]
[A] Plato, Pol. vi. 486.
[B] From the Bellerophon of Euripides.
[C] From the Hypsipyle of Euripides. Cicero (Tuscul. iii. 25)
has translated six lines from Euripides, and among them are
these two lines,--
"Reddenda terrae est terra: tum vita omnibus
Metenda ut fruges: Sic jubet necessitas."
41. If gods care not for me and my children,
There is a reason for it.