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Xanthias and his master Dionysus have just been whipped after impersonating the hero Heracles in the underworld. During their masquerade, Xanthias dressed as the hero, and Dionysus as his slave, and the role-reversal amuses Aeacus. During this scene, the apparently orderly Aeacus reveals his true self: he is a reluctant servant of his master, Pluto God of the underworld, and he delights in eavesdropping, plotting and hopefully getting the better of him. Their conversation is interrupted by the
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Enter AEACUS, XANTHIAS and two attendants.
AEACUS
By Zeus the Saviour, quite the gentleman
Your master is.
XANTHIAS
Gentleman? I believe you.
He's all for wine and women, is my master.
AEACUS
But not to have flogged you, when the truth came out
That you, the slave, were passing off as master!
XANTHIAS
He'd get the worst of that.
AEACUS
Bravo! that's
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