The book of the ancient Greeks / An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.

by Dorothy Mills

First I must shrive them with some cleansing thing.

Thoas.

What? Running water, or the sea's salt spray?

Iphigenia.

The sea doth wash all the world's ills away.

Thoas.

For sure. 'Twill make them cleaner for the knife.

Iphigenia.

And my hand, too, cleaner for all my life.