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 any where else since the play began. But now let us hear Syphax: What hinders then, but that you find her out, And hurry her away by manly force? But what does old Syphax mean by finding her out? They talk as if she were as hard to be found as a hare in a frosty morning. Semp. But how to gain admission! Oh! she is found out then, it seems. But how to gain admission! for access Is giv'n to none, but Juba and her brothers. But, raillery apart, why access to Juba? For he was owned and received as a lover neither by the father nor by the daughter. Well! but let that pass. Syphax puts Sempronius out of pain immediately; and, being a Numidian, abounding in wiles, supplies him with a stratagem for admission, that, I believe, is a non-pareille: Syph. Thou shalt have Juba's dress, and Juba's guards; The doors will open when Numidia's prince Seems to appear before them. Sem-