In the background is the house of CHREMYLUS. A ragged old

blind man enters, followed by CHREMYLUS and his slave CARIO.)

What an unhappy fate, great gods, to be the slave of a fool! A

servant may give the best of advice, but if his master does not follow

it, the pool slave must inevitably have his share in the disaster; for

fortune does not allow him to dispose of his own body, it belongs to

his master who has bought it. Alas! 'tis the way of the world. But the

god, Apollo (in tragic style), whose oracles the Pythian priestess