Tr. Samuel Butler,1900“Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods.
It is from us, they say, that evils come, but they even of themselves,
through their own blind folly, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.
[35] Even as now Aegisthus, beyond that which was ordained,
took to himself the wedded wife of the son of Atreus, and slew him on his return,