Who threatened to despoil me of the wealth
I won at Troy, suffering for many years
The woes of that long war; and all his grudge
Was that I had not served the king his father,
But kept my own retainers—for which thing
He would have robbed me: but I smote him dead.—
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Ath. Ah, king of ready wile, what tale is this
Of Crete and of thy sons, which when I bid thee
Speak truth, trips on thy tongue? Dost thou not know