“Drive the corruption from the land,don’t harbor it any longer, past all cure,don’t nurse it in your soil—root it out!” (109)
"Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood. Murder sets the plague-storm on the city." (114)
"I charge you, then, submit to that decreeyou just laid down: from this day onwardspeak to no one, not these citizens, not myself.You are the curse, the corruption of the land!" (398)
"The damage I’d face from such an accusationis nothing simple. No, there’s nothing worse:branded a traitor in the city, a traitorto all of you and my good friends." (580)
"You, plotting to kill me, kill the king—I see it all, the marauding thief himselfscheming to steal my crown and power!" (196)
"Now, as it is, you offer me all I need,not a fear in the world. But if I wore the crown . . .there’d be many painful duties to perform,hardly to my taste." (660)
“Revealed at last, brother and father bothto the children he embraces, to his motherson and husband both—he sowed the loinshis father sowed, he spilled his father’s blood!” (520)