LYCINUS
But you need not think you can afterwards take refuge in the plea that you forgot me in all the confusion and bother, for I spoke to you twice to-day, not only in the morning at your house, but later in the day, when you were sacrificing at the temple of Castor and Pollux, “I have made this statement to set myself right with your guests.
But if you think that I am angry over a mere dinner, call to mind the story of Oeneus and you will see that Artemis herself was angry because she was the only one whom he had not asked to the sacrifice when he entertained all the rest-of the gods. Homer puts it something like this: Whether he forgot or would not, greatly was his soul at fault.Iliad 9, 537. Euripides says: This land is Calydon, lying over seas From Pelops’ isle; a land of fertile plains. From the lost Meleager of Euripides. . And Sophocles: A boar, a monstrous thing, on Oeneus’ fields Turned loose Latona’s lass, who kills afar. From the lost Meleager of Sophocles.
