But you are sworn to secrecy.
ALCIBIADES.

You a sophist, and talk of oaths! You a pupil of Euripides, and forget his maxims! "My lips have sworn it; but my mind is free." (See Euripides: Hippolytus, 608.

For the jesuitical morality of this line Euripides is bitterly attacked by the comic poet.) SPEUSIPPUS.

But Alcibiades-- ALCIBIADES.

What! Are you afraid of Ceres and Proserpine?
SPEUSIPPUS.