28–29
Cynic
I fancy it is usual for departed spirits to take a draught of the water of Lethe?
Cynic
Let him be the sole exception.
Rhadamanthus
What is the idea in that?
Cynic
His earthly pomp and power for ever in his mind; his fingers ever busy on the tale of blissful items;—’tis a heavy sentence!
Rhadamanthus
True. Be this the tyrant’s doom. Place him in fetters at Tantalus’s side,—never to forget the things of earth.
