And make division. Well! What say ye, lords?
Ctes. Hark not to him: he hath a specialty.
Amph. Imbrue ye not your hands in innocent blood,
Nor touch Telemachus: for ’tis a thing
Abhorred of Zeus to meddle with a life
Of royal strain. There be the oracles;
Consult ye them: and if Telemachus
Must die and ’tis decreed, I shall be last
Of men to oppose it: otherwise I stand
Against Antinous, ay, sword to sword: