couched at their side: she will not let them stretch a hand 25
to the board: she starts up with torch uplifted and
thunder in her tones. Here are they who lived in hatred
with their brethren while life yet was; who smote a
parent or wove for a client the web of fraud; who gained
a treasure and brooded over it alone, and never shared it 30
with their kin—a mighty number these—adulterers,
who were slain for their crime; citizens who followed
the standard of treason; slaves who shrunk not from
breaking their troth to their lords: all in prison awaiting