8–9
MEGAPENTHES
It’s not much time that I ask for, Lady of Destiny; let me stay just this one day, till I can give my wife directions about my money—the place where I kept my great treasure buried.
CLOTHO
It is settled; you can’t be permitted.
MEGAPENTHES
Then is all that gold to be lost?
10
CLOTHO
No, it will not be lost. Be easy on that score your cousin Megacles will get it.
MEGAPENTHES
What an outrage! My enemy, whom I was too easy-going to put to death before I died?
CLOTHO
The very man; and he will outlive you forty years and a little more, taking over your concubines and your clothing and all your plate.
MEGAPENTHES
You are unjust, Clotho, to bestow my property on my worst enemies.
CLOTHO
Why, did not it formerly belong to Cydimachus, and did not you take it over after killing him and slaughtering his children upon him while the breath was still in his body?
15
MEGAPENTHES
But it was mine now.
CLOTHO
Well, the term of your ownership has now expired.
MEGAPENTHES
Listen, Clotho, to something that I have to say to you in private, with nobody else listening. (Yo the others.) You people stand aside a moment. (Yo ctoruo) If you let me run away, I promise to give you a thousand talents of coined gold to-day.
CLOTHO
What, you ridiculous creature, have you gold and talents still on the brain?
MEGAPENTHES
And I'll give you also, if you wish, the two winebowls that I got when I put Cleocritus to death; they are of refined gold and weigh a hundred talents each.
CLOTHO
Hale him off: it seems that he won’t go aboard willingly.
