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Often appears with: equity, mercy, and pardon · self-accusation · securities and oaths · predation of birds · oenone explanation · necessity of caution · justice as a virtue · ignorance of omens · honor, shame, and reputation · hippolytus innocence · friendship and loyalty · friendship
Usually: betrayal (3) · indignation (2) · argument (1) · commentary or gloss (1) · narrative (1) · verse (1) · confronting death (1) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
“Adequate securities are oaths, children, wives, and, strongest of all, a blameless past.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) · precept
“To trust absolutely no one is to make all action impossible; but reasonable action, taken after receiving adequate security, cannot be censured.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) · insight
“haec dea non stabili quam sit leuis orbe fatetur quem summo dubium sub pede semper habet.” Ovid, The Last Poems of Ovid · insight
The fox flatters Chanticleer to sing and wink on command, and Chanticleer, unable to detect treason, is seized by the throat and carried toward the wood while his wife ignores the dream.
But certain there is no comparison Betwixt the wisdom and discretion Of youre father, and his subtilty. Now singe, Sir, for sainte charity, Let see, can ye your father counterfeit?” This Chanticleer his wings began to beat, As man that could not his treason espy, So was he ravish’d with his flattery. Alas! ye lordes, many a false flattour* *flatterer <30> Is in your court, and many a losengeour, * …
Polybius argues that blaming or pardoning people who suffer “catastrophes” depends on precautions taken, warning against rashly placing oneself in the enemy’s power and stressing adequate securities.
[Sidenote: Betrayal of Achaeus by Bolis. See *infra*, ch. 17-23.] +2.+ The conclusion, then, is that those who put themselves in the power of the enemy from want of proper precaution deserve blame; but those who use every practicable precaution not so: for to trust absolutely no one is to make all action impossible; but reasonable action, taken after receiving adequate security, cannot be censured. Adequate securiti…
Ovid questions a former friend’s betrayal and asks why he avoids his earlier intimacy, blaming Fortune’s instability and ending with a charge of personal fickleness.
nobis quae meruere deae? at tu, cui bibitur felicius Aonius fons, utiliter studium quod tibi cedit ama, sacraque Musarum merito cole, quodque legamus huc aliquod curae mitte recentis opus! 50 41 quia nec *BCH(Iac)* me nec *IpcP* neque me *MFLT* || uinum] unum *C* || nec me] neque me *T* || 42 tacitum *add I1 in marg* tantum *C* || 43 nec me] nec *Iac* hec me *C, ut uid* || 45 frigida] frigora *C* || restant] restat …
Hippolytus fears Phaedra will accuse herself to destroy herself and plans to persuade Theseus gently, but Theseus has already decided betrayal exists; Oenone claims she tried to interpret Phaedra’s tears as protection of Theseus from shame.
HIPPOLYTUS, THERAMENES HIPPOLYTUS What do these words portend, which seem'd to freeze My very blood? Will Phaedra, in her frenzy Accuse herself, and seal her own destruction? What will the King say? Gods! What fatal poison Has love spread over all his house! Myself, Full of a fire his hatred disapproves, How changed he finds me from the son he kne…