The Ferry (3)

Don't be angry any longer, Charon, for here he is himself, quite near, you see, bringing us a great many people and driving the crowd along with his staff more as if they were a herd of goats. But what is this? I see one in irons among them, and another laughing, and one has a leathern pouch slung about him and carries a club in his hand. He looks fiercely about and urges on the others. See, Hermes himself, too, is dripping with perspiration and panting, and

It is all this wretch here, Klotho. He ran away, and I chased him till I came near deserting the ship for to-day.

Who is he, and what did he want to run away for?

That is easy to see-because he preferred to live. He is some king or despot, to judge from his lamentations and the things he mourns for. He says he has been deprived of great happiness of some sort.

Then the poor fool tried to run away because he thought he could come to life again after the thread woven for him had already come to an end?