Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man,
so long as the gods grant him power spring in his knees,
he thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.
but then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard
times
bear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart,
what does the underlined line in this passage tell the reader about the
cultural context of this passage?