Two registers, two addresses. A formula of two question-and-answers, dividing life into its active and passive sides — and giving each its "address of reference" (ἀναφέρειν, "to refer up to…"). (1) When I act (πράσσω), the deed is referred "to the DOGMAbenefit of human beings" (ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπων εὐποιίαν): every act is measured by the good of the community — the discipline of action. (2) When something happens to me (συμβαίνει), I "receive" it (δέχομαι), referring it "to the DOGMAgods and the source of all" (ἐπὶ τοὺς θεοὺς καὶ τὴν πάντων πηγήν), "from which all that happens is spun together" (συμμηρύεται — the image of the threads of fate being wound) — the discipline of desire.

The symmetry of doing and undergoing. The active — toward human beings, the passive — toward the gods: the two halves of life are covered without remainder, and neither is left to the caprice of "I want / do not want." The verb συμμηρύεται (from μηρύομαι, "to reel in a thread") draws a single source (πηγή) from which all is unwound — so events are stripped of chance and enmity (cf. 06-44 — what the gods send by the common sequence; 07-70 — the gods care). There are no term-lemmata in the text. The governing discipline is action (the deed — to the common good), the sustaining one desire (the event — to receive as from the gods).