I'll in
this minute! (_he rushes toward door: a peal of thunder:
he falls to ground motionless_)

ACTVS V

ACT V

(_Half an hour has elapsed._)

ENTER _Bromia_ FROM HOUSE, IN A PANIC.

_Brom._

Spes atque opes vitae meae iacent sepultae in pectore,
neque ullast confidentia iam in corde, quin amiserim;
ita mihi videntur omnia, mare terra caelum, consequi,
iam ut opprimar, ut enicer. me miseram, quid agam nescio.

Oh, my hopes and chances of getting out of this alive are
dead and buried inside of me! There's not a thing left to
keep my courage up now! The way everything--sea, land, sky--
does seem set on crushing me, killing me off this instant!
Oh dear, oh dear! What to do I don't know.

ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta. vae miserae mihi,
animo malest, aquam velim. corrupta sum atque absumpta sum.
caput dolet, neque audio, nec oculis prospicio satis,
nec me miserior femina est neque ulla videatur magis. 1060

Such amazing
things as did happen in there! Oh, poor me! I feel faint.
Oh, for some water! I'm a wreck, I'm all done up. My head's
splitting, and I can't hear or see right, either. There
isn't a wretcheder woman on earth, or one that could seem
so, either.

ita erae meae hodie contigit. nam ubi parturit, deos sibi invocat,
strepitus, crepitus, sonitus, tonitrus:
ut subito, ut propere, ut valide tonuit!
ubi quisque institerat, concidit crepitu. ibi nescio quis maxuma
voce exclamat: "Alcumena, adest auxilium, ne time:
et tibi et tuis propitius caeli cultor advenit.
exsurgite" inquit "qui terrore meo occidistis prae metu."

The experience mistress did have this day! As
soon as her time comes she calls on the gods to help her,
and there's a grumbling and rumbling and smashing and
crashing--what a crash, so sudden and quick and heavy it
was! Every one fell flat where he stood at the peal. And
then some one or other called out in a mighty voice:
"Alcmena, help is at hand: be not afraid. To thee and thine
the sovereign of the skies comes in kindliness. Rise," he
said, "ye who have fallen in terror, from dread of me."

ut iacui, exsurgo. ardere censui aedis, ita tum confulgebant.
ibi me inclamat Alcumena; iam ea res me horrore adficit,
erilis praevertit metus: accurro, ut sciscam quid veli