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 1 Text|         you not suppose that the Gods sometimes partly grant and
 2 Text|          good, especially if the Gods are in the mood to grant
 3 Text|        wrong when they blame the gods as the authors of the ills
 4 Text|     public and private, that the Gods will give unto them the
 5 Text|       surely, as I conceive, the Gods have power either to grant
 6 Text|       were also to ask, ‘Why the Gods always granted the victory
 7 Text|         so little respect to the Gods that they have a habit of
 8 Text|         or make offerings to the Gods, and beg at random for what
 9 Text|        bad. When, therefore, the Gods hear them using words of
10 Text|          winds;~‘But the blessed Gods were averse and received
11 Text|         they were hateful to the Gods, who are not, like vile
12 Text|        is inconceivable that the Gods have regard, not to the
13 Text|   innumerable crimes against the Gods or against their fellow-men
14 Text| fellow-men or the state. For the Gods, as Ammon and his prophet
15 Text|  especially honoured both by the Gods and by men of sense; and
16 Text|         to speak and act towards Gods and men. But I should like
17 Text|        should behave towards the Gods and towards men.~ALCIBIADES:
18 Text|     excellent advice, and to the Gods we will offer crowns and