Meaning you are naive, now wishing to mollify, since time has reached a critical juncture. Ajax says [this] to Tecmessa.[1] And elsewhere: "isn't your plan foolish, to strive for tyranny without a rabble and allies, a thing which is acquired with a rabble and with money?"[2]
And again: "O fool, fool, do not incite terrible thoughts in gods, lest Justice overturn your whole family into complete oblivion with the mattock of Zeus." It is said in reference to blasphemers.[3]