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Rh. If I am not your son, where did you get me?

. In a wooded valley of Cythaeron.

. What brought you wandering there?

. I was in charge of mountain sheep.

. A shepherd—a wandering, hired man.

. A hired man who came just in time.

. Just in time—had it come to that?

. Have not the cords left their marks upon your ankles?

. Yes, that is an old trouble.

. I took your feet out of the spancel.

. I have had those marks from the cradle.

. They have given you the name you bear.

. Tell me, for the gods’ sake, was that deed my mother’s or my father’s?

. I do not know—he who gave you to me knows more of that than I.

. What? You had me from an­other? You did not chance on me yourself?

. No. Another shepherd gave you to me.