Similar to these are the lines of Theognis, The lines are: Ζεὺς γάρ τοι τὸ τάλαντον ἐπιρρέπει ἄλλοτε ἄλλως ῎Αλλοτε μὲν πλουτεῖν, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἔχεω. Theog. 157. in which he says that God (whatever he means by “God”) inclines the scale to men now one way and now another, and so at one moment they are rich, and at another penniless.  Somewhere too in his writings Prodicus, the Sophist of Chios, has made similar reflexions on vice and virtue, to whom attention may well be paid, for he is a man by no means to be despised.  So far as I recollect his sentiments, they are something to this effect.  I do not remember the exact words, but the sense, in plain prose, was as follows: The story of The Choice of Hercules used to be called, from Prodicus (of Ceos, not Chios) Hercules Prodicius.  Suidas says that the title of the work quoted was Ωραι.  The allegory is given at length in Xenophon’s Memorabilia (II. i. 21) in Dion Chrysostom’s Regnum, and in Cicero (De Officiis i. 32), who refers to Xenophon.  It is imitated in the Somnium of Lucian.