LYCINUS
Well, Philo, that was the end of the dinner-party: it would be better, though, to say at the close as they do in the plays of Euripides: In many shapes appear the powers above, And many things the gods surprise us with, While those we look for do not come about.These lines occur at the close of the Alcestis, the Andromache, the Barchae and the Helen, and, with a slight change, in the Medea. For all of it, you know, was quite unexpected. This much, however, I have at last learned, that it is not safe for a man of peace to dine with men so learned.
