PHILOSOPHY Good! Come, Frankness. We acquit you of the charge; you have an unanimous verdict in your favour, and from now on you may count yourself one of my household. FRANKNESS I pay my homage at once. (He kisses his hand.) But no! I think I shall do it more as they do in a play, for that will be more reverential: O Victory, goddess so greatly revered, Take my life in thy care And cease not to crown me with garlands. Euripides, close of Phoenissac, Orestes, Iphigenia om Tauris. VIRTUE Well, then, let us now initiate our second bowl of wine. Let us summon up those others to be punished for the insults they are inflicting upon us. Frankness shall accuse each of them. PHILOSOPHY Quite right, Virtue; so slip down into the town, Syllogism, my lad, and summon the philosophers. SYLLOGISM Oyez! Silence! Let the philosophers come to the Acropolis to present their defence before Virtue, Philosophy, and Justice. FRANKNESS Do you see! Very few of them understood the summons and are coming up. Besides, they fear Justice, and most of them are actually too busy because of their attentions to the rich. If you wish them all to come, Syllogism, make your proclamation like this— SYLLOGISM No! You summon them, Frankness. in the way you think best.