t to fear. Seers, soothsayers--
have none of them. I will make known to thee future and past
alike, and better far than they, moreover, for I am Jupiter.
First of all, then, I took thy Alcmena to myself and by me
she was made a mother.

tu gravidam item fecisti, cum in exercitum
profectu's: uno partu duos peperit simul.
eorum alter, nostro qui est susceptus semine,
suis factis te immortali adficiet gloria. 1140
tu cum Alcumena uxore antiquam in gratiam
redi: haud promeruit quam ob rem vitio vorteres;
mea vi subactast facere. ego in caelum migro.

By thee too was she with child when thou didst go forth to
war: at one birth she bore them both. The one begotten of my
seed shall win thee undying glory by his works. Live again
in fond concord as of old with thy wife Alcmena: she has
done naught to merit thy reproach: my power was on her.
I now depart to heaven. [EXIT _Jupiter_.

V. 3.

Scene 3.

_Amph._

Faciam ita ut iubes et te oro, promissa ut serves tua,
ibo ad uxorem intro, missum facio Teresiam senem.

(_reverently_) Thy will shall be done: and keep thy
word with me, I beg thee. (_after a pause_) I'll in and
see my wife! No more of old Tiresias!

nunc, spectatores, Iovis summi causa clare plaudite.

(_to the audience_)
Now, spectators, for the sake of Jove almighty, give us some
loud applause.

[EXIT.

[Footnote 2: Corrupt (Leo): _Alcumena_ MSS: _illa_ Bothe.]

[Footnote 4: Leo brackets following v., 14:
_lucrum ut perenne vobis semper suppetat._]

[Footnote 5: Corrupt (Leo): _affero_ MSS:
_fero_ Acidalius, followed by Lindsay and others.]

[Footnote 6: Leo assumes lacuna here.]

[Footnote 7: _architectust_ Pareus: _architectus_ MSS.
Lambinus suggests that the actor who took the part of Jupiter
may have been a builder.]

[Footnote 8: Corrupt (Leo): _illi_ MSS:
_ille illi_ Ussing, followed by Lindsay.]

[Footnote 9: Leo brackets following v., 93:
_praeterea certo prodit in tragoedia._]

[Footnote 10: Leo brackets following v., 173:
_nec aequom anne iniquom imperet cogitabit._]

[Footnote 11: _vicimus vi_ MSS: Leo brackets _vicimus._]

[Footnote 12: Corrupt (Leo): "_Convertitur pro convertit_,"
Nonius 480.]

[Footnote 13: Corrupt (Leo