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Rh. I was: not a bought slave, but reared up in the house.

. What was your work—your manner of life?

. For the best part of my life I have tended flocks.

. Where, mainly?

. Cythaeron or its neighbour­hood.

. Do you remember meeting with this man there?

. What man do you mean?

. This man. Did you ever meet him?

. I cannot recall him to mind.

. No wonder in that, master; but I will bring back his memory. He and I lived side by side upon Cythaeron. I had but one flock and he had two. Three full half-years we lived there, from spring to autumn, and every winter I drove my flock to my own fold, while he drove his to the fold of Laius. Is that right? Was it not so?

. True enough; though it was long ago.

. Come, tell me now—do you remember giving me a boy to rear as my own foster-son?

. What are you saying? Why do you ask me that?