28
Not at all, but, with your permission, I will suggest a new and fitting punishment for him.
28
Speak; I shall be deeply grateful to you.
28
It is the custom, I believe, for all, when they die, to drink of the water of Lethe.
28
Certainly.
28
Then let him alone of all men have no taste of it?
29
Why?
29
In this way he will undergo the worst punishment, remembering what he was and what power he had on earth, and pondering on his lost splendors.
29
You are right. Let him be sentenced and carried off and bound along with Tantalos, remembering the deeds he did while he was alive.
