Voyage To the Lower World (6)

Bring up the wounded next, Hermes. Now I can get to work. Tell me how you were killed. Or no; I had better look at my notes, and call you over. Eighty-four due to be killed in battle yesterday, in Mysia, ‘These to include Gobares, son of Oxyartes.

Adsunt.

The seven who killed themselves for love. Also Theagenes, the philosopher, for love of the Megarian courtesan.

Here they are, look.

And the rival claimants to thrones, who slew one another?

Here!

And the one murdered by his wife and her paramour?

Straight in front of you,

Now the victims of the law,—the cudgelled and the crucified. And where are those sixteen who were killed by robbers?

Here; you may know them by their wounds. Am I to bring the women too?

Yes, certainly; and all who were shipwrecked; it is the same kind of death. And those who died of fever, bring them too, the doctor Agathocles and all.