**CRASSUS **(Lying in his bath): Fetch your stool, Antoninus. (*Antoninus fetches the stool) *In here with it... That will do... Do you steal, Antoninus?
ANTONINUS (He begins rubbing Crassus’ back): No master.
CRASSUS: Do you lie?
ANTONINUS: Not if I can avoid it.
CRASSUS: Have you ever dishonoured the gods?
ANTONINUS: No master.
CRASSUS: Do you refrain from these vices out of respect for... moral virtues?
ANTONINUS: Yes master.
CRASSUS (After a long pause): Do you eat oysters?
ANTONINUS: When I have them master.
CRASSUS: Do you eat snails?
ANTONINUS: No master.
CRASSUS: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
ANTONINUS: No master.
CRASSUS: Of course not... It is all a matter of taste.
ANTONINUS: Yes master.
CRASSUS: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals, is it? (He begins to get out of the bath)
ANTONINUS: It could be argued so master.
CRASSUS: My robe, Antonius. (Antoninus dresses him, Crassus gives him a sidelong glance). My taste includes both snails and oysters...