Else learn’st thou nought of me: And speak but truth.

Ill speeds entreaty on a lying tongue.

Ul. Indeed I speak but truth, friend, when I say

I know not where I stand; as thou must grant

At hearing how I came: for from wide Crete

Have I fared over sea with these my goods—

Where to my sons I left as much again,

When thence I fled in fear, because I slew

The noble and swift-footed prince of Crete,

Orsilochus, son of Idomeneus;