Men in ancient Corinth engaged in vigorous, high-stakes communicative competition. In Romans 8:37, Paul declared, “we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” Paul here may be reversing the proverb “win but do not overwin.” That saying attained proverbial usage by the 430s CE at the latest. The idea underlying “win but do not overwin” is consistent with the important classical Delphic precept, “nothing to excess.” The specific phrasing “win but do not overwin” may have been popularized from a line in Menander.^