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RHADAMANTHUS
At any rate he made use of a cure that is sound and very efficacious. Well, go your way to the Isles of the Blest to live with the good, but first prosecute the tyrant you spoke of. Hermes, summon others.
MICYLLUS
My case also is a trifling one and needs but a short investigation. In fact, I have been stripped and waiting for you a long time, so inspect me.
RHADAMANTHUS
Who are you?
MICYLLUS
The cobbler Micyllus.
RHADAMANTHUS
Good, Micyllus, you are quite clean and unmarked. Be off and join Cyniscus there. Call the tyrant now.
HERMES
Let Megapenthes, son of Lacydes, come this way. Where are you turning to? Come here! It is you I am calling, tyrant. Thrust him in among us, Tisiphone, with a push on the neck.
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RHADAMANTHUS
Cyniscus, open your prosecution and state your case now, for here is the man.
