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Kyniskos
You are right. See, now, this person advancing with a torch, looking fiercely and threateningly about her. I wonder whether it is an Erinnys?
Mikyllos
Probably, from the look of her dress.
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Hermes
Receive these people, Tisiphone-a thousand and four.
Tisiphone
Indeed, Rhadamanthos here has been waiting for you a long time.
Rhadamanthos
Bring them forward, Erinnys. You, Hermes, officiate as herald and summon them.
Kyniskos
Rhadamanthos, in the name of your father, produce me and examine me first.
Kyniskos
I have a great desire to accuse some one of the evil deeds I know he committed in his lifetime, and my testimony would not be worthy of credence unless it has first been shown what my character is and how I passed my life.
Rhadamanthos
And who are you?
Kyniskos
Kyniskos, my good sir, of the philosophical persuasion.
Rhadamanthos
Come here and stand your trial first. Hermes, call for the accusers.
Hermes
If any one accuses Kyniskos, the defendant, let him come forward.
Rhadamanthos
But this is not enough, Kyniskos. Take off your clothes, so that I may judge you by your brands.
Kyniskos
How should I be a branded slave?
Rhadamanthos
Every evil deed that one of you commits in his life brands invisible marks on his soul.
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Kyniskos
Here I stand stripped, so look for these brands you talk about.
Rhadamanthos
He is spotless from head to foot, except for these three or four blurred and very indistinct brands. But what is this? Here are the prints and traces of many burnings, but they have been washed out somehow, or rather cut out. What do these mean, Kyniskos, and how is it that you look spotless again?
