WEAK

There are indeed moments when we wish to attribute our thoughts to others. Clearest in this regard is the apology of Agamemnon to Achilles in the Iliad.45 . . . I am not responsible, but Zeus and Moira [the destiny he allots] and the Erinys [vengeful demon] that walks in the mist, who at the assembly implanted wild ate [destructiveness] in my mind on the day on which I myself took his prize [Briseis] from Achilles.' It is his own fault that he is describing, and he knows it. But it is how the world is, it is Zeus! If Zeus sends signs by weather and by the stars, and if he manages the whole course of human life, then it makes sense that he should sometime communicate with men in various indirect ways to express his will!