Toxaris You are right; let us do so. Mnesippos But we need no blood, Toxaris, and
no sword to cement our friendship. For this
present talk of ours and our striving for like
things will be more sure than that cup of which
you drink, since to my mind such matters need
not compulsion but good-will. Toxaris I approve. Let us be friends and
hosts from this moment, you to me here in Greece,
and I to you if you should ever come to Scythia. Mnesippos I assure you I would cheerfully go
farther yet to find such friends as your words
prove you to be, Toxaris.