glorious and mighty, Grant to Ajax victory,94 and ‘O Zeus ! who boasts to be more wise than thou ? 95’ they mean the god himself; but when they apply the name of Zeus to the causes of all that happens, and say, ‘Many valiant souls it sent to the realm of Hades, Goodly men, and their bodies gave to the dogs as ravin And to birds a feast—the design of Zeus in fulfilment,96’ they mean Fate. For the poet does not imagine that it is the god who contrives evils for mankind, but by the name he rightly implies