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Kyniskos
I will tell you. I used to be wicked because I was ignorant, and won many a brand by this means. But as soon as I began to take to philosophy, I washed off, little by little, all the stains from my soul, by the use of this so excellent and effectual medicine.
Rhadamanthos
I dismiss you to the islands of the blest, to the society of the noblest, after you have accused the despot you mention. Summon the others.
Mikyllos
My case, too, Rhadamanthos, is a trifling one, and calls for a short inquiry. I am stripped for you already, so examine me.
Rhadamanthos
Who may you be?
Mikyllos
Mikyllos, the shoemaker.
Rhadamanthos
Well done, Mikyllos; you are perfectly spotless and unmarked. You, too, I dismiss along with Kyniskos here. Now summon the tyrants.
Hermes
Let Megapenthes, son of Lakydes, appear. Which way are you turning? Come forward. I am summoning you, the despot. Shove him out, Tisiphone, head-foremost into the middle.
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Rhadamanthos
But you, Kyniskos, accuse him now and expose him utterly, for the man is at hand as defendant.
