Klotho Stop your threats and come aboard. It is time now for you to go to your trial. Megapenthes And who will venture to pass judgment on a man of kingly rank? Klotho No one will judge the king, but the dead man must come before Rhadamanthos. You will soon see him assigning his doom to each with great justice and according to merit. Don't waste any more time just now. Megapenthes Make me a private citizen, Fate, if you will, a poor man, a slave instead of a king as I was. Only let me come to life again! Klotho Where is the man with the club? And you, too, Hermes; drag him in by the foot, for he would not come voluntarily. Hermes Come with me, you runaway. Take him, ferryman, and, to make him safe, dash it— Charon All right. He shall be made fast to the mast. Megapenthes Assuredly I ought to be placed in the seat of honor. Klotho Why? Magapenthes Because, by Heaven, I was a despot and had a body-guard of ten thousand men. Kyniskos Then Karion was right to pluck out the hair of such a mischievous creature. You will rue your tyranny when you have tasted the club. Megapenthes Will Kyniskos, then, dare to raise his staff against me? Did I not almost crucify you a day or two ago because you were too free and rough and disrespectful? Kyniskos That is why you, too, will stay crucified against the mast.