(Chorus) ‘Who slew him?’Pomaxathres, who happened to be one of the banqueters, sprang up and laid hold of the head, feeling that it was more appropriate for him to say this than for Jason. The king was delighted, and bestowed on Pomaxathres the customary gifts, while to Jason He gave a talent. With such a farce as this the expedition of Crassus is said to have closed, just like a tragedy.1
(Agave) ‘Mine is the honour,’
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This delighted everybody; but when the following dialogue with the chorus was chanted:
1 A poet competing at the Athenian City Dionysia exhibited three tragedies and a satyric drama, ‘the four plays being performed in succession in the course of the same day.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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