No one has ever praised a vicious character,
for we have venerable rules descended from
the past. If we cite in our defence examples of
man’s weakness, we employ a false agreement.
“Spirits” and “honey” are names similar in form;
but the name of the one does not justify us in
drinking the other. Tuka says, I borrow these
thoughts from others; I scatter them abroad like
rain, to fall as they may.
for we have venerable rules descended from
the past. If we cite in our defence examples of
man’s weakness, we employ a false agreement.
“Spirits” and “honey” are names similar in form;
but the name of the one does not justify us in
drinking the other. Tuka says, I borrow these
thoughts from others; I scatter them abroad like
rain, to fall as they may.