Don't be dismayed; that malady afflicts many a person to whom it
has proved wholesome to be spit upon, and has been of service to them.
ARIST. Why, what do you say? Do you, too, credit him?
HEG. Credit him in what? ARIST. That I am mad?
TYND. Do you see him, with what a furious aspect he's looking at you?
'Twere best to retire, Hegio; it is as I said, his frenzy grows apace;
have a care for yourself.
HEG. I thought that he was mad, the moment that he called you Tyndarus.
TYND. Why, he's sometimes ignorant of his own name and doesn't know what
it is.
HEG. But he even said that you were his intimate friend.
TYND. So far from that, I never saw him. Why, really, Alcmaeon, and
Orestes, and Lycurgus [3] besides, are my friends on the same principle
that he is.
ARIST. Villain, and do you dare speak ill of me, as well? Do I not know
you?
HEG. I' faith, it really is very clear that you don't know him, who are
calling him Tyndarus, instead of Philocrates Him whom you see, you don't
know; you are addressing him as the person whom you don't see.
ARIST. On the contrary this fellow's saying that he is the person who he
is not; and he says that he is not the person who he really is.
TYND. You've been found, of course, to excel Philocrates in
truthfulness.
ARIST. By my troth, as I understand the matter, you've been found to
brazen out the truth by lying.
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