What say the augurs?

They would not have you stir forth to-day:

Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,

They could not find a heart within the beast.

 

-- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2 

 

The Two Jars of Zeus

 

 

Two jars are set upon the floor of Zeus –
from one, he gives good things, the other, bad.
When thundering Zeus gives somebody a mixture,
their life is sometimes bad and sometimes good.

Achilles to Priam, Iliad XXIV 525f.