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He suffers much, who for a dowry has His body sold,— as Euripides says; for he gets but small matters by it, and those very uncertain. But to him who passes not through much ashes, but through a certain regal pile of fire, being perpetually short breathed, full of fear, and bathed in sweat as if he had crossed the seas to and fro, she gives at last a certain Tantalian wealth, which he cannot enjoy by reason of the continual turmoil that encumbers him. For that Sicyonian horse-courser was well advised, who presented the king of the Achaeans with a swift-footed mare, That to proud Ilium’s siege he might not go,Il. XXIII. 297. but stay at home and take his pleasure, wallowing in the depth of his riches, and giving himself up to an unmolested ease.
