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400—423] . Who is the woman, then, whom thou hast brought?

. She is Euboean; but of what birth, I cannot say.

. Sirrah, look at me:—to whom art thou speaking, think'st thou?

. And thou—what dost thou mean by such a question?

. Deign to answer me, if thou comprehendest.

. To the royal Deianeira, unless mine eyes deceive me,—daughter of Oeneus, wife of Heracles, and my queen.

. The very word that I wished to hear from thee:—thou sayest that she is thy queen?

. Yes, as in duty bound.

. Well, then, what art thou prepared to suffer, if found guilty of failing in that duty?

. Failing in duty? What dark saying is this?

. 'Tis none; the darkest words are thine own.

. I will go,—I was foolish to hear thee so long.

. No, not till thou hast answered a brief question.

. Ask what thou wilt; thou art not taciturn.

. That captive, whom thou hast brought home—thou knowest whom I mean?

. Yes; but why dost thou ask?

. Well, saidst thou not that thy prisoner—she, on whom thy gaze now turns so vacantly—was Iolè, daughter of Eurytus?

. Said it to whom? Who and where is the man that will be thy witness to hearing this from me?

. To many of our own folk thou saidst it: in