Silenus: I will do so, with small thought of any master. For let me
have a single cup of that and I would turn madman, giving in exchange
for it the flocks of every Cyclops and then throwing myself into the
sea from the Leucadian rock, once I have been well drunk and smoothed
out my wrinkled brow. For if a man rejoice not in his drinking, he
is mad; for in drinking it's possible for this to stand up straight,
and then to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there
is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. Shall not I then purchase
so rare a drink, bidding the senseless Cyclops and his central eye
go hang? (Silenus goes into the cave.)
Leader: Hearken, Odysseus, let us hold some converse with thee.
Odysseus: Well, do so; ours is a meeting of friends.
Leader: Did you take Troy and capture the famous Helen?
Odysseus: Aye, and we destroyed the whole family of Priam.
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