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[270] οὐδ᾽ ὄπιθεν. As thou hast not been spiritless nor witless to-day, in the assembly, so ‘neither hereafter wilt thou be,’ etc. It might be a mere accident that thou hast acquitted thyself so well to-day; to-day's is but one essay: but (Athena continues) if thou art thy father's son, to-day is an augury of many such displays.

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