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SOSTRATUS

Then all of us, whether we are thought good or bad, acted as we did as the servants of Fate?

MINOS

Yes, as servants of Clotho, who has ordained for each of us at birth what he must do.

SOSTRATUS

If, then, a man is forced by another man to kill, and is unable to gainsay the compulsion he brings to bear, if, for instance, he is a public executioner, or a mercenary, obeying, in one case, a judge, and, in the other, a tyrant, whom will you hold responsible for the killing? 5

MINOS

Clearly the judge or the tyrant, since the actual sword can’t be blamed; for it merely serves as a tool to serve the passion of the person who is responsible in the first instance.

SOSTRATUS

Many thanks, Minos, for your generous elaboration of my example. And, if some one brings with his own hands gold or silver sent by his master, whom must we thank and record as the benefactor?

MINOS

The sender, Sostratus; the bringer was merely a servant.

SOSTRATUS

Don’t you see then how wrong it is for you to punish us, who have been the servants of the commands of Clotho, and to have shown honour to those who ministered to the good deeds of others? No one can say that it was possible for us to gainsay ordinances that are all-compelling.