Were they once masters—but that's doubtful. Satraps!

Your swords and persons are at liberty

To use them as ye will—but from this hour320

I have no call for either. Salemenes!

Follow me.

[Exeunt Sardanapalus, Salemenes, and the Train, etc., leaving Arbaces and Beleses.

Arb.‍Beleses!

Bel.‍Now, what think you?

Arb. That we are lost.

Bel.‍That we have won the kingdom.