INFORMER
You are laughing at me. Well, then I denounce you as their accomplice. Where did you steal that new cloak from? Yesterday I saw you with one utterly worn out.
JUST MAN
I fear you not, thanks to this ring, for which I paid Eudemus a drachma.
CARIO
Ah! there's no ring to preserve you from the informer's bite.
A short comedic intermission is inserted in today's quest for the Ring of Solomon. The quote above is from Plutus by Aristophanes. Eudemus was a physician who sold medicated rings to treat or prevent snake bites and other ailments.
