Speak always as you think! Truly, Parmenio, neither of us can be good for much, since we are here. Have you already heard my story?
PARMENIO.
Alas!
PHILOTAS.
And when you heard it?
PARMENIO.
I pitied you, I admired you, I cursed you; I do not know myself what I did.
PHILOTAS.
Yes, yes! But now that you have also learned, as I suppose, that the misfortune is not so great since Polytimet immediately afterwards was----