With decent horror.

Cœn. Your sick imagination feigns all this:

Now hear a truth, and wonder.

Cleom. Has not the conqueror been at Sparta?

Cœn. Yes.

Cleom. Nay, then I know what follows victory.

Panth. You interrupt, as if you would not know.

Cœn. Then,—if you will imagine,—think some king,

Who loved his people, took a peaceful progress

To some far distant place of his dominions;