Maxims of Theognis: Not even though you should

Not even though you should have the sense of Rhadamanthus himself, and be more knowing than Sisyphus, son of Æolus; (even he who by his cunning came-up-again from Hades, after having persuaded Proserpine by wily words, Proserpine, who gives oblivion to mortals, and misleads their mind: and never hath any other devised this, I ween, whomsoever in truth the black mist of death has enshrouded, and he has come to the chilly place of the dead, and crossed the dark portals which confine the souls of the dead, even though they refuse: yet, verily, even thence came back the hero Sisyphus to the light of the sun through his own exceeding-shrewdness;) nor if you could make falsehoods like to truths, having the skilful tongue of the god-like Nestor, and were swifter of foot than the fleet Harpies, and the sons of Boreas, whose feet go swiftly. Nay, then, ’tis right that all should lay up this maxim, that wealth has the most power among all.