Part 5: On consistency; honesty, openness, plain speaking, reliability

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Whom should one blame, if not the person who delivered a child to a husband in the middle of the night without waiting until daylight.

Who is the one on whom water was poured? Who is the one being mounted by the god?

Who else will the flies flock after if not the person with open sores.

Who has tied you down and thus forced you to confess your guilt?

Who is concocting a medicine by the river about which the lábẹlábẹ plant is ignorant?

28. The plant is presumably an ingredient in the medicine anyway.  [Back to text]