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Often appears with: villa looting · poverty and wealth · imprisonment · escape from guards · crime and punishment
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · confronting death (1) · censure (1) · irony (1)
Lycurgus betrays the fugitives by imprisoning them; Ascyltos frees them at dawn by breaking the guard’s door, and they loot Lycurgus’ villa while the avaricious Lycurgus receives a Tantalus-like scorn.
Lycurgus, cruel by nature and incapable of keeping his word, was by this time striving to hit upon the best method of betraying us, and to that end, he persuaded Lycas to go for help, while he himself returned to the villa and had us put under guard. To the villa he came, and greeted us with a scowl as black as any Lycas himself had ever achieved, clenching his fists again and again, he charged us with having lied ab…