Potter thus—

“But may _slaves_ be permitted of the free

To ask—I mean no rudeness, no reproach—

But may we ask? And wilt thou answer us?”

247.——τί δῆτ’ ἔλεξας, δούλος ὤν ἐμὸς τότε;

Potter—“What didst thou say, when thou wast then my _slave_?”