Good point,bbg--it struck me as a bit like Robert Burns writing "The Devil Away with the Excise Man". I believe that the line is close to being a translation f

Good point,bbg--it struck me as a bit like Robert Burns writing "The Devil Away with the Excise Man". I believe that the line is close to being a translation from a line in one of Tyrtaeus's poems. I definitely vote with telemachos on this one.