Be warned, and give me no more false counsels lest your end prove swifter than you think.

Learn that I have asked these questions of you to a purpose, and by the command of the gods, as it was written on the hearts of those sacrificed this day.

This was the purpose and this was the command, that I might discover your secret mind, and that I should shun whatever advice you chanced to give.

You counsel me to fight the Teules, therefore I will not fight them, but meet them with gifts and fair words, for I know well that you would have me to do that which should bring me to my doom.' Thus he spoke very fiercely and in a low voice, his head held low and his arms crossed upon his breast, and I saw that he shook with passion.
Even then, though I was very much afraid, for god as I was, a nod from this mighty king would have sent me to death by torment, I wondered at the folly of one who in everything else was so wise.

Why should he doubt me thus and allow superstition to drag him down to ruin?
To-day I see the answer.