EURIPIDES
Heracles
Why do you cry, Father, and hide your eyes?
Why do you stand off from the son you love?
Amphitryon
O my son, my son, whatever you have done. „ „ .
Heracles
What have I done that you should weep for it?
Amphitryon
Even a god would weep, if he knew it, 1115
Heracles
A great grief it must be; but you hide it.
Amphitryon
It is there to see, if you could but see it.
Heracles
Tell me if you mean my life is not the same.
Amphitryon
Tell me if you are sane; then I shall speak.
Heracles
0 gods, how ominous these questions are! 1120
Amphitryon
1 wonder even now if you are not mad. . . .
Heracles
Mad? I cannot remember being mad.
Amphitryon
Friends, shall I loose his ropes? What should I do?
Heracles
Tell me who bound me! Who disgraced me so?
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