Homeri Opera Graecolatina: Ilias, Odyssea, Hymni (Châteillon)

like the Israelites, who, having willingly served the Chaldeans, were afterward forced to serve the same. This is, indeed, divine justice, that in whatever kind a person has sinned, in the same he should for the most part pay the penalty. I mention this for this reason, that adolescents may learn from my example to treat those things in passing which ought to be treated in passing: and to devote their effort professionally to those things to which effort ought to be devoted professionally, lest they happen to make the maid the mistress, and the mistress the maid: that is, lest they devote effort professionally to human disciplines and in passing to divine ones. For it is right that divine things should command human ones, and human things should serve divine ones.