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RHADAMANTHUS
Enough witnesses! Come, strip off your purple robe that we may see the number of your marks. Well, well! The fellow isall livid and crisscrossed; indeed, he is black and blue with marks. How can he be punished? Shall he be thrown into the River of Burning Fire or turned over to Cerberus?
CYNISCUS
No, no! If you like, I will suggest you a punishment that is new and fits his crime.
RHADAMANTHUS
Speak out; I shall be most grateful to you for it.
CYNISCUS
It is customary, I believe, for all the dead to drink the water of Lethe?
RHADAMANTHUS
Certainly.
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CYNISCUS
Then let this man be the only one not to drink it.
CYNISCUS
He will pay a bitter penalty in that way, by remembering what he was and how much power he had in the upper world, and reviewing his life of luxury.
RHADAMANTHUS
Good! Let sentence stand in that form, and let the fellow be taken off and put in fetters near Tantalus, to remember what he did in life.
