And if you be not willing to do so,
But your own means to spare, shall think it best
To feast yourselves on one man’s substance all,
And ruin his estate, go on and feast,
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While I upon the Gods for vengeance call.
O that the mighty Jove would so ordain,
That all men’s actions might be repaid
As they deserve! Then should you all be slain
Within my doors.+

But if this seems in your eyes to be a better and more profitable thing,
that one man's livelihood should be ruined without atonement,
waste ye it. But I will call upon the gods that are forever,
if haply Zeus may grant that deeds of requital may be wrought.
[380] Without atonement, then, should ye perish within my halls.”