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10. Aye, and what worse task than to be wise and suffer for it. I know this well; it slipped out of mind, or I would never have come.

. What now?

. Let me go home. You will bear your burden to the end more easily, and I bear mine—if you but give me leave for that.

. Your words are strange and un­kind to the State that bred you.

. I see that you, on your part, keep your lips tight shut, and therefore I have shut mine that I may come to no mis­fortune.

. For god’s love do not turn away—if you have knowledge. We suppli­ants implore you on our knees.

. You are fools—I will bring mis­fortune neither upon you nor upon myself.

. What is this? You know all and will say nothing? You are minded to betray me and Thebes?

. Why do you ask these things? You will not learn them from me.

. What! Basest of the base! You would enrage the very stones. Will you never speak out? Cannot anything touch you?

. The future will come of itself though I keep silent.