feed the drones whose nature is to do
 mischief—by day and throughout the day until the sun goes down
 the bees are busy and lay the white combs, while the drones stay at
 home in the covered hives and reap the toil of others into their own
 bellies— even so Zeus
 who thunders on high made women to be an evil to mortal men, with a
 nature to do evil. And he gave them a second evil to be the price for
 the good they had: whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women
 cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years, and though he
 at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives, yet, when he is
 dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them. And as for the
 man who chooses the lot of marriage and takes a good wife suited to
 his mind, evil continually contends with good; for whoever happens to have mischievous children,
 lives always with unceasing grief in his spirit and heart within him;
 and this evil cannot be healed. So it is not possible to deceive or go
 beyond the will of Zeus: for not even the son of Iapetus, kindly
 Prometheus, escaped his
 heavy anger, but of necessity strong bands confined him, although he
 knew many a wile.
 

 
 But when first their father was vexed in his heart with Obriareus and
 Cottus and Gyes, he bound them in cruel bonds, because he was jealous
 of their exceeding manhood and comeliness