Your very silence shows you agree. - Euripides

So that many characters which passed as heroic, or at least presentable, in the kindly remoteness of legend, reveal some strange weakness when brought suddenly into the light. When the tradition is Satyric, as here, the same process produces almost an opposite effect. It is somewhat as though the main plot of a gross and jolly farce were pondered over and made more true to human character till it emerged as a refined and rather pathetic comedy.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone.