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CLOTHO
Bring in the wounded next, Hermes. (To the DEAD) First tell me what deaths brought you here—but no, I myself will refer to my papers and pass you. Eighty-four should have died in battle yesterday in Media, among them Gobares, the son of Oxyartas.
CLOTHO
Seven committed suicide for love, among them the philosopher Theagenes for the courtesan from Megara.This man can hardly be other than the Cynic of Patras mentioned in The Passing of Peregrinus, who died in the teign of Marcus Aurelius. To be sure, Galen says he was killed by his doctor (x, p. 909), but he may well have been alive when Lucian wrote this.
HERMES
Right here beside you.
CLOTHO
Where are the men who killed each other fighting for the throne?
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CLOTHO
And the man who was murdered by his wife and her lover?
CLOTHO
Now bring in the output of the courts, I mean those who died by the scourge and the cross. And where are the sixteen who were killed by pirates, Hermes?
HERMES
Here they are, these wounded men whom you see. Do you want me to bring in all the women together?
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CLOTHO
By all means, and also those lost at sea, for they died in the same way. And those who died of the fever, bring them in together, too, and their doctor Agathocles along with them.
