Εὐφημία

"On account of good speech the divinity prefers Lakedaimon over all the altars of the Athenians and their temples and statues and hecatombs and the rest of the nonsense of those lazy people longing for a feast. Thus reason teaches us that true piety is mute and full of sobriety, and is hardly burdensome. 'For good speech is the easiest of labors.'¹ I suppose you have heard [this], o son of Ariston."² And Euripides [writes]: "for good speech is best at libations."³