Thou shouldst have brought him whores and catamites;

Such merchandise is fit for such a monarch.

Clean. Wouldst thou bring horses here, to shame our men?

Those very words, of spirited and war,

Are treason in our clime.

Cleom. From the king downward, (if there be a downward,

From Ptolemy to any of his slaves,)

No true Egyptian ever knew in horses

The far side from the near.

Clean. Cleomenes told thee true: Thou shouldst have brought