"So you have come formally to me with your people's plaint and expect me to solve a question that you yourselves can not solve," Flaccus said. "Poena! But you are a helpless lot! I shall pen the heretics in Rhacotis forthwith, and command them neither to visit nor to be visited! Is it enough?"
The three Jews arose.
"It is wisdom," said the Sadducee.
"It will serve," the Pharisee observed.
"I shall ferret them out," Lysimachus said.
"Thanks," the three observed at once. "Peace to all this house."
Flaccus waved his hand and the three passed out.