I have fled the bad and found the better

Explanation

set down for those who augur within themselves a change for the better. For at Athens at weddings it was the custom for a child whose parents both lived to be crowned with thorns mixed with oak-fruit, and, carrying round a winnowing-basket full of loaves, to say, "I have fled the bad and found the better." They signified that they had pushed away the wild and ancient way of life, and had found the cultivated food.