He knows as well as the rest of us that one hand washes the other! The only question now is--for I would rather avoid all woman's outcries--whether the girl will come willingly or unwillingly if we send for her.

What do you think, Lysias ?" "I believe she would sooner get out of prison to-day than to-morrow," replied Lysias.

"Irene is a lighthearted creature, and laughs as clearly and merrily as a child at play--and besides that they starve her in her cage." "Then I will have her fetched to-morrow!" said Euergetes.
"But," interrupted Cleopatra, "Asclepiodorus must obey us and not you; and we, my husband and I--" "You cannot spoil sport with the priests," laughed Euergetes.

"If they were Egyptians, then indeed! They are not to be taken in their nests without getting pecked; but here, as I have said, we have to deal with Greeks.

What have you to fear from them?
For aught I care you may leave our Hebe where she is, but I was once much pleased with these representations, and to-morrow morning, as soon as I have slept, I shall return to Alexandria, if you do not carry them into effect, and so deprive me, Heracles, of the bride chosen for me by the gods.