If being alone automatically makes you solitary, then you could say that even Zeus is solitary during the cosmic fire. He would be lamenting, 'Poor me! I have no Hera, no Athena, no Apollo, no brother, no son, no descendants, no relatives.' Some people claim this is what Zeus does when he's alone during the conflagration. But they don't understand how someone can live when they're alone. They start from a basic human need — our natural desire for community, mutual love, and the joy of talking with other people.
For if being alone is enough to make solitude, you may say that even Zeus is solitary in the conflagration and bewails himself saying, Unhappy that I am who have neither Hera, nor Athena, nor Apollo, nor brother, nor son, nor descendant, nor kinsman. This is what some say that he does when he is alone at the conflagration. For they do not understand how a man passes his life when he is alone, because they set out from a certain natural principle, from the natural desire of community and mutual love and from the pleasure of conversation among men.